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- adjective Not
scholarly .
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- adjective not scholarly
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Examples
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My own unscholarly guess is that, for all the Bardic motifs, this is more Fletcher than Shakespeare.
Cardenio - review 2011
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Oliver Cromwell, excellently described as "a big, bony, practical, rather awkward man – hands-on, sporty, unscholarly despite his Cambridge days, but with the gift of the gab and a knack for popular leadership", benefits from some of Starkey's finest analysis.
Crown & Country by David Starkey - review Charles Spencer 2010
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Thoroughly unscholarly, but suggests this deal had nothing to do with “protecting unique national resources” and everything to do with sticking it to the Indians.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Can a State Use Eminent Domain to Take Federal Land? 2010
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You also brought up, very unscholarly, stoning and polygamy.
The Better Part 2008
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Thoroughly unscholarly, but suggests this deal had nothing to do with “protecting unique national resources” and everything to do with sticking it to the Indians.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Can a State Use Eminent Domain to Take Federal Land? 2010
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Frank nodded, letting his unscholarly forelock fall across his forehead.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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I didn't think that there was any justification for accusing Price of being unscholarly.
Mythicism: Microexistence vs. Macroexistence? James F. McGrath 2010
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I was excited by the idea of a werewolf story in blank verse, but it appears to my unscholarly eyes to be only free verse.
MIND MELD: The Best Genre Related Books/Films/Shows/Games Consumed In 2008 (Part III) 2008
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The radical interpretation of this ideology, as supported by the Taliban and to an extent al-Qaeda, rationalizes and justifies its political ambitions through such simplistic, unscholarly analysis of an Islam that is stripped from its spirituality and historical precedence.
Wajahat Ali: Indian Muslims: Defining their Loyalty After Mumbai Attacks 2009
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Adam B.re. your comment on Mahmoud Abbas 'holocaust denial his 1982 doctoral thesis is a bizarre and unscholarly document which although not explicitly denying the holocaust does link it to a Zionist-Nazi conspiracy and argues over the numbers of victims which is equally distasteful.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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