unscholarly

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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

With this unscholarly, anti-“Antiques Roadshow” approach, “we’re really hoping to get younger people interested in collecting,” Mr. Fritz said in a recent telephone interview, while on location in rural Florida.

From New York Times • Jan. 15, 2010

Weak as we may think such reasonings, we must regard them as, at least, less unscholarly than the hypothesis that the inscription should be read “90 M.” meaning “ninety miles from London.”

From In the Wrong Paradise by Lang, Andrew