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It comes with a tiny 32-page “Little Book of Cat Phrenology,” which unscientifically yet persuasively categorizes feline actions into broad categories such as resistance, indifference, calculation and vengeance.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2023

"Those unscientifically designed structures intensified the waves and undercut sand dunes, which help mitigate erosion and storm surges," he said.

From Reuters • Nov. 19, 2021

There were hundreds, if not thousands: yellowish four-inchers with as many as six pairs of eyes and a tail full of venom so toxic that the species is known, unscientifically, as the deathstalker.

From New York Times • Nov. 15, 2021

At the moment, there are a few obvious routes he could go, which I’m unscientifically going to rank from mostly to least likely.

From Slate • Jun. 23, 2021

One can only speak roughly and unscientifically of truths that are pure and of others that are applied.

From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Croce, Benedetto