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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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In July 2024, the board eliminated an automatic right of students found responsible for nonacademic misconduct to appeal their verdict.—
John Wisely,
Freep.com,
17 Oct. 2025
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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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On its face, the government's defense appears to be that the individuals behind these statements are ignorant or incompetent, or both.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
2 Dec. 2025
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The citizens of Oz are treated as no more than an undifferentiated crowd of extras, an ignorant and finally disposable monolith.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
20 Nov. 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
Adjective
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Which is to say, this isn’t the story of a greedy, materialistic man who suffers a crisis of conscience while trying to pry a priceless treasure away from an uneducated hick who doesn’t know any better.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
29 Oct. 2025
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The people who looked Indigenous were the uneducated characters, the cartoon characters.—
Abbey White,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Oct. 2025
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So Fernandez ended up scoring two goals and incessantly bothering the Charlotte FC players with his ball skills and occasional extracurricular activity.—
Scott Fowler,
Charlotte Observer,
8 Nov. 2025
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Things like school programs and extracurricular activities, as well as school characteristics like size, should also be considered, according to the board.—
Erick Trevino,
AZCentral.com,
5 Nov. 2025
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This cooking competition show takes a group of kitchen illiterate recruits and puts them through a culinary bootcamp designed to instill them with basic food prep skills.—
Ilana Gordon,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 Dec. 2025
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The real Nixon is often lumped in with our current President, but this is historically illiterate.—
Tim Greiving,
HollywoodReporter,
20 Dec. 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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Even with Dibble effortlessly laying waste to every point and argument made by his benighted co-guest, Joe Rogan remained unconvinced.—
Rafael Perez,
Oc Register,
1 Dec. 2025
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With the midterm election still nearly a year off — and the 2028 presidential contest eons away — many of those angry or despondent over the benighted state of our union desperately wanted to do something to push back.—
Mark Z. Barabak,
Mercury News,
8 Nov. 2025
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“Unscholarly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unscholarly. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.
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