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
His syntax is loose and unscholarly; his vocabulary is copious, but often inaccurate; many of his sentences ramble on interminably, lacking unity, precision, and balance.
From History of the Plague in London by Defoe, Daniel
