unscholarly

adjective

of, like, or befitting a scholar: scholarly habits.

having the qualities of a scholar: a scholarly person.

concerned with academic learning and research.

adverb

like a scholar.

Origin:
1590–1600; scholar + -ly

Related forms

schol·ar·li·ness, noun

pseu·do·schol·ar·ly, adjective

qua·si-schol·ar·ly, adjective

su·per·schol·ar·ly, adjective

un·schol·ar·ly, adjective

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scholar (ˈskɒlə)

—n
1.	a learned person, esp in the humanities
2.	a person, esp a child, who studies; pupil
3.	a student of merit at an educational establishment who receives financial aid, esp from an endowment given for such a purpose
4.	(South African) a school pupil

[C14: from Old French escoler, via Late Latin from Latin scholaschool¹]

'scholarly

—*adj*

'scholarliness

—n

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"We have seen over and over that white male historians in general have tended to dismiss any history they didn't themselves write, on the grounds that it is unserious, unscholarly, a fad, too "political," "merely" oral and thus unreliable."

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