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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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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
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Unfortunately, this isn't the case because admissions officers consider many academic and nonacademic factors.Kristen Moon, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
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The juxtaposition of ignorant tourism and seemingly backwards folk religions produces the kind of gruesome friction that horror filmmakers love to exploit.Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 5 Dec. 2024
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Many Americans remain ignorant of this history, and the organizers behind these projects want to educate them about it — with the hope history won't repeat itself.Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 26 Nov. 2024
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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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Recommendations depend on a child’s age: Kids between the ages of 2 and 5 should not watch more than one hour of noneducational programming per weekday, according to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.Daniel Bortz, Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2023
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So Americans who don't travel, who 80 percent don't have a passport, who are uneducated, are in their extraordinary naivete.Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2024
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So, Americans who don’t travel, who 80 percent don’t have a passport, who are uneducated, are in their extraordinary naïveté.James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Nov. 2024
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Jermaine has not only maintained an outstanding GPA of above 4.0 but has also immersed himself in various extracurricular activities that reflect his commitment to personal and professional growth.Gege Reed, The Courier-Journal, 9 Dec. 2024
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Other elements of the college application picture, such as test scores, class rank, essays and extracurricular activities are an integral part of showcasing who a student really is.Bonnie Kleffman, Austin American-Statesman, 6 Dec. 2024
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India was a poor and illiterate nation, torn apart by caste and religion and encumbered by centuries of custom and tradition.Madhav Khosla, Foreign Affairs, 5 Feb. 2020
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There are also fart jokes, piss-drinking, illiterate hobo pirates, and Missi Pyle with a unibrow and fangs, all of which still go straight to the comedy jugular 20 years after the film’s release.Sean Malin, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2024
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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
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And this is just a small sampling of the kind of far-right legal reasoning that routinely escapes this benighted court.Ian Millhiser, Vox, 25 Sep. 2024
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In its 50th anniversary year, the storied fantasy role-playing game is now making a long-overdue, and noteworthy, correction to its scientifically benighted treatment of race.Steven Dashiell, Scientific American, 31 July 2024
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“Unscholarly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unscholarly. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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