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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
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The books of Michael Clune, or at least the ones written for a nonacademic audience, have focussed on very particular chapters of his life.—
Emily Witt,
New Yorker,
13 Aug. 2025
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Yet a great number of public activities — sporting events, museum exhibitions, musical and theatrical performances, celebrations and receptions, readings and nonacademic research — happen on more than 10 shady Central Texas college campuses.—
Michael Barnes,
Austin American Statesman,
2 July 2025
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So what will our ignorant commissioner do with the information?—
Edward Lotterman,
Twin Cities,
28 Sep. 2025
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But criticism quickly began to pile in on Chinese social media, where users denounced the advertising stunt as ignorant of the potential environmental impacts in a remote and pristine ecosystem.—
Chris Lau,
CNN Money,
22 Sep. 2025
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But the premise is more or less an excuse to make monologue jokes, which Bargatze did about everything from Severance’s confusing story line to the decidedly noneducational programming offered on the Learning Channel.—
Hershal Pandya,
Vulture,
15 Sep. 2025
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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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This Court finds that Respondent’s lack of candor on his I-485 was not an oversight by an uninformed, uneducated applicant.—
Filip Timotija,
The Hill,
18 Sep. 2025
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As Plato once described, Socrates taught an uneducated boy how to double the area of a square.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
17 Sep. 2025
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Latinos in Action, a nationwide educational program, was offered as an elective class or extracurricular club at 46 Broward middle and high schools and education centers.—
Amanda Rosa,
Miami Herald,
30 Sep. 2025
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Others reported their parents restricted their involvement in extracurricular activities such as sports, dances or mixed-gender clubs, limiting opportunities.—
Hind Haddad,
The Conversation,
30 Sep. 2025
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Assembly Bill 325 is economically illiterate nonsense that attempts to ban the use of pricing algorithms that help businesses determine prices.—
The Editorial Board,
Oc Register,
29 Sep. 2025
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Because most people back in Roman times were illiterate and totally disconnected from the news of the World.—
Nikki McCann Ramirez,
Rolling Stone,
22 Sep. 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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The characters include a temperamental goat, a sweet-natured monk, an unlettered orphan boy and an intelligent young girl whose destiny is to dethrone a king.—
Meghan Cox Gurdon,
WSJ,
10 Dec. 2021
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One Battle After Another is the rare American film released in these benighted times of ours — with the backing of a major studio, no less — to be clear and insistent in the target of its anger, its despair and its prescriptions for what might make things better.—
Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
17 Sep. 2025
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With hundreds of years of patient work behind it, with some educational institutions willing to protect their scientists, and with researchers hard at work in less-benighted nations, the human desire to know and to understand will continue to produce results.—
Bill McKibben,
New Yorker,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Unscholarly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unscholarly. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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