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Recent Examples of unscholarly
In 2015, Anton recalls, Marini began sending long emails to his colleagues arguing that Trump, in his unscholarly way, might have the potential to force the constitutional order back into its proper limits.
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New York Times, 3 Aug. 2022
Some might find my use of historical sources to be selective and unscholarly.
—Matt Ford, The New Republic, 8 July 2022
New York Times, 3 Aug. 2022
Some might find my use of historical sources to be selective and unscholarly.
—Matt Ford, The New Republic, 8 July 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unscholarly
Adjective
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Many faculty and administrators of that era were still apt to view such programs as frivolous, nonacademic, or not worth the investment.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
4 June 2025
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Perhaps nonacademic employers in those places would be smart to lure workers with family deals, just like the deans in higher ed.—
Ian Bogost,
The Atlantic,
8 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Consequently, many of those enslaved in Texas remained ignorant of the proclamation’s potential impact on their lives, or of the fact the Civil War had functionally ended two months earlier.—
Timothy Welbeck,
The Conversation,
16 June 2025
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Careless or ignorant reporting has obscured objective reality.—
Nicholas DiMarzio,
New York Daily News,
13 June 2025
Adjective
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White House officials told reporters at the time that the administration also planned to work with sports governing bodies, including the International Olympic Committee, to ensure the guidance is followed in noneducational settings.—
Jo Yurcaba,
NBC News,
19 Mar. 2025
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Indiana is one of the few states that allow noneducational governmental agencies, such as the Indianapolis mayor’s office, to authorize charter schools.—
Caroline Beck,
IndyStar,
4 May 2023
Adjective
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Still, despite the glut of legal graduates, his shift in focus was an unusual move for an ambitious young man in a country where farming is seen as a job for old, uneducated or poor people.—
Carmen Abd Ali,
New York Times,
20 Apr. 2025
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The Catholic Church openly collaborated with the Ustaše, whose support came largely from young men with rural, blue-collar, uneducated backgrounds.—
Larry Luxner,
Sun Sentinel,
5 May 2025
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To be eligible, applicants must score 32 or better on the ACT and have a high school GPA of at least 3.9, with community service, extracurricular activities and evidence of intellectual curiosity, leadership, and creativity also considered.—
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arkansasonline.com,
7 July 2025
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Those factors can look like children and teenagers not having access to a high-quality education or extracurricular activities like summer camps.—
Katie Langford,
Denver Post,
5 July 2025
Adjective
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Eckstein writes on a 6th-grade level and like half the country is functionally illiterate, this according to the U.S. Department of Education’s National Assessment of Adult Literacy.—
Bob Eckstein,
New York Daily News,
29 Apr. 2025
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Is there any wonder the Valley’s illiterate overlords are embracing it?—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
26 June 2025
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The unlettered Prince has gained in life what Hamlet achieved only in death: his own story shaped on his own terms, thanks to the intervention of a skillful Horatio.—
Rebecca Mead,
The New Yorker,
13 Jan. 2023
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Busby Berkeley Wrongly taken as a mere ornamentalist—even worse, sometimes mistaken for a fascist—Busby Berkeley was an erotic sociobiologist, an unlettered philosopher in visual music.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
23 July 2022
Adjective
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Antony and Cleopatra’s benighted love story plays out against the surge of Roman power, and Caesar, sung with biting clarity by Paul Appleby, comes off as a modern Duce.—
Justin Davidson,
Vulture,
13 May 2025
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In that benighted era, smart and beautiful women like Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and Judy Holliday were perennially cast in jiggle roles: empty headed, screen-filling eye candy.—
Guy Trebay,
New York Times,
24 Mar. 2025
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“Unscholarly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unscholarly. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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