unscholastic
- a word derived from scholastic.
Example Sentences
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Hence the first approach to any subject in school, if thought is to be aroused and not words acquired, should be as unscholastic as possible.
From Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education by Dewey, John
Then he remembered that whatever pleasures had mitigated the exasperation of school last term were decidedly unscholastic, and he blushed.
From Sinister Street, vol. 1 by MacKenzie, Compton
Sent to Leipzig in his seventeenth year, he finds himself an awkward, ungainly lad, and sets diligently to perfecting himself in the somewhat unscholastic accomplishments of riding, dancing, and fencing.
From Among My Books First Series by Lowell, James Russell
They were immediately shown into a very small and very stuffy room on the right of the front door—a gloomy little room, because blinds of coloured beads shut out the unscholastic world.
From Sinister Street, vol. 1 by MacKenzie, Compton
I know 'tis yours, when unscholastic wights Unloose their fancies in presumptuous flights, Awaked to vengeance, on such flights to frown, Clip the wing'd horse, and roll his rider down.
From Poems (1828) by Gent, Thomas
