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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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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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Butts: By making academic and nonacademic data to drive my instructional decision-making.Madeleine Parrish, The Arizona Republic, 8 Oct. 2024
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To be ignorant of love is a willful choice when presented so honestly.Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 22 Oct. 2024
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My ignorant questions perpetuated stereotypes, casting them into victim roles.Leo Barraclough, Variety, 16 Oct. 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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The second group comprises uneducated individuals who engage in daily labor, working on both their own land and the land of others.PhotoVogue, Vogue, 28 Oct. 2024
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If investors remain uneducated about the importance of self-custody, then any increase in demand will be met with an increase in the supply of paper bitcoin (also known as IOUs).Dave Birnbaum, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
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Studies suggest that participating in extracurricular activities, including athletics, provides all sorts of benefits for students.Michael J. Petrilli, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
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Touring and recording with his own neo-tango band, Bajofondo, seemingly wasn’t enough of an extracurricular activity.Ernesto Lechner, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2024
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Hesiod, formerly an illiterate shepherd, claimed that he was inspired to write the poem when a beautiful goddess whispered the story in his ear.Alison Habens, JSTOR Daily, 31 Oct. 2024
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Back in the United States, President Joe Biden proposed a national rent control, an idea that’s economically illiterate and probably unconstitutional.Steven Greenhut, Orange County Register, 4 Oct. 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 8 Nov. 2024.
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