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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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Under exigency, the school may cut both nonacademic and academic staff, including tenured faculty.Rachel Wegner, The Tennessean, 16 Dec. 2024
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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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Anyone who says she wasn't properly screened is either ignorant or has an agenda.Dan Perry, Newsweek, 2 Jan. 2025
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Who would go out of their way to remain ignorant in the face of an informative lecture on bunker oil?Rachel Kushner, Harper's Magazine, 2 Dec. 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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All extracurricular activities scheduled for Friday and Saturday will be canceled.Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 9 Jan. 2025
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Although Henderson’s extracurricular training perhaps drew more attention than that of his peers, the former Liverpool man is far from alone in using the off-season to make physical improvements.Sarah Shephard, The Athletic, 7 Jan. 2025
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In 2024, 21 percent of adults in the U.S. were found to be illiterate, while 54 percent of adults had a literacy below a sixth grade level, .Jasmine Laws, Newsweek, 6 Jan. 2025
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And the popularity of these economically illiterate policies (not including the tax cuts) could indeed be very harmful, especially as trust in economic experts continues to fall.Connor Okeeffe, Orange County Register, 25 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 20 Jan. 2025.
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