unacademically love

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  • adverb In an unacademic way.

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unacademic +‎ -ally

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Examples

  • "I'll bet it is a corking story," she added unacademically.

    Wild Wings A Romance of Youth Margaret Rebecca Piper

  • And the latter found more delight in the time when he could discuss freely and unacademically with me than when he was invited to formal teas and dinners by the weightier members of the faculty and community.

    Tramping on Life Kemp, Harry, 1883-1960 1922

  • And the latter found more delight in the time when he could discuss freely and unacademically with me than when he was invited to formal teas and dinners by the weightier members of the faculty and community.

    Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative Harry Kemp 1921

  • In unacademically vivid language, intended for clarity’s sake, but at the risk of oversimplification, we argue that throughout these last five decades libertines and prudes have successively provoked one another: Liberal sexual morality provoked some Americans to assert conservative religious beliefs and affiliations, and then conservative sexual morality provoked other Americans to assert secular beliefs and affiliations.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

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