unscholarly

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