scholarly
adjective
of, like, or befitting a scholar.
unscholarly
-
a word derived from
scholarly.
Example Sentences
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Dr. Brown said such a statement was unscholarly.
From New York Times ● Oct. 18, 2022
If it seems odd to mourn the decline of inventive swearing, it’s also an insightful, decidedly unscholarly way to show cultural changes.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 8, 2019
To some, he had long seemed more interested in fame than in careful science, and his press conference struck them as theatrical and unscholarly.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 20, 2016
And it is scholarship of the best kind—carefully researched and referenced, but written with unscholarly grace—to put the point bluntly—and perfectly accessible to the intelligent general reader.
From Salon ● May 15, 2016
The History of Music by Burney, the cleverest and most refined musical critic of the age, shows in the very freshness of its musical scholarship how completely unscholarly were the musical ideas of the time.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" by Various
