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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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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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Any suggestion that this is some kind of victory for Combs is ignorant.—
KiMi Robinson,
USA Today,
27 Aug. 2025
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In this case, the problem is ethics in the medical profession, as young doctor Andrew Manson (Robert Donat) moves from idealism to disillusionment and back again when faced with ignorant patients who are skeptical of his conclusions, economic hardship, and crooked colleagues.—
Jim Hemphill,
IndieWire,
25 Aug. 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
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Even women of color with a college education have a higher chance of dying in childbirth than an uneducated white woman, and that is shocking.—
Luisa Zargani,
Footwear News,
30 Aug. 2025
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These consequences will not be limited to the poor, the uneducated or minority groups.—
Arthur L. Kellermann,
Forbes.com,
28 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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This has affected attendance, participation in extracurricular activities and communication within school communities.—
Alan J. Borsuk,
jsonline.com,
30 Aug. 2025
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The Saline Area Senior Center is also open, and extracurricular activities are able to continue in the building.—
Jalen Williams,
Freep.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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They were kept illiterate, by law.—
Chadd Scott,
Forbes.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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This was particularly important given that much of their peasant audience was illiterate, Palmer explains.—
Danny Robb,
JSTOR Daily,
8 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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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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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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Like the original Outlander, Blood of My Blood is believably frank about the possibility of assault in the benighted past.—
Graham Hillard,
The Washington Examiner,
22 Aug. 2025
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“Unscholarly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unscholarly. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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