unstudious

The most obvious reason is still a bit too simplistic in my view: that unlike the clever Hal, the unstudious W. was never equal to the office and the challenge, failing to understood the war against Al Qaeda.

‘Night, Not-So-Sweet Prince 2008

But Chinese assume they are superior to the lazy, unstudious, unfilial, wife-and-family-abandoning white Americans.

"Obama acted almost as the primaries were behind him, offering a case against the probable Republican nominee." Ann Althouse 2008

Neither do we compare the bright and peculiar luminaries of Harvard with the mass of men, -- though, in fact, it is well known that the best scholars live the most years, -- but we compare the whole body of the graduates, bright and dull, studious and unstudious, with the whole body of the community.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 Various

"Sketches from Venetian History," in the _Family Library_; and so interesting is the narrative, or rather the facts and conjectures, to the lover of history, as well as to the unstudious playgoer, that we are induced to quote nearly every line of the passage.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 559, July 28, 1832 Various

It is designed for such as move in a hurry, unstudious of the graces, being for the most part not over-dressed, and yet seeking publicity -- that publicity which came to Sister Ursula unsought.

The Idler Magazine, Volume III, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Various

And if these generalizations appear indefensible, still more misleading, it may be urged, is an attempt to represent that the poet, when he takes issue with this and that opponent, is answering a challenge hidden away from the unstudious in the tenth book of Plato's

The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years Elizabeth Atkins

Like an unstudious urchin I am beguiled by the smoothness of paper and the invitation of pale blue lines, to accomplish a task to which a common ledger or exercise book could not beguile me.

Died in the Wool Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1945

Chief Justice; and as to his unstudious habits, therein perhaps lay one of the causes contributing to his achievement.

John Marshall and the Constitution; a chronicle of the Supreme court Edward Samuel Corwin 1920

From within came the sounds of very unstudious revelry, laughter, a snatch of song, voices raised in good-natured argument.

The New Boy at Hilltop Ralph Henry Barbour 1907

One end of the room is lined with deep-browed tomes, of a scientific and medical aspect; a writing-table in the spacious bow-window betrays an air of recent requisition; softly cushioned lounges invite to unstudious repose; within easy reach are picture-papers and the latest poem.

Love and Life Behind the Purdah 1901