Definition of anti-literary
: opposed to or not in conformity with literary values or methods : deliberately or emphatically not literary We are an unintellectual as well as an anti-literary country. We like leaders who give us simple answers.— Norma Klein
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The first known use of anti-literary was in 1756
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