unpedantic

He had a great many acquaintances among students and young people, who liked him for his cynical wit, his harmless, though biting, self-confident speeches, his one-sided, unpedantic, though genuine, learning, but occasionally they sat on him severely.

Virgin Soil 2003

He is a sensible, unpedantic guide to the Middle-earth; not for him the excessive symbol-hunting or structural analysis of some academic hobbit-fanciers.

Does Frodo Live? Smith, Janet Adam 1972

But Boileau's L'art poétique (1674) is an elegant, unpedantic résumé of current opinions.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas E. N. TIGERSTEDT 1968

Scott's statement in the Advertisement as to why he did not omit any of the original collection shows his unpedantic attitude toward the kind of studies which he was encouraging by the republication of this series.

Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature Margaret Ball

And with this tolerant and unpedantic frame of mind I am in hearty accord.

Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland F. J. Widgery

It should not be forgotten that the French epic has room for comedy, not merely in the shape of "comic relief," though that unhappily is sometimes favoured by the _chansons de geste_, and by the romances as well, but in the "humours" inseparable from all large and unpedantic fiction.

Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature W. P. Ker

-- "The author ... writes not only out of the fulness of his knowledge, but in a pleasant unpedantic style."

A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916

The polish of his language and he unpedantic manner in which he revealed his culture greatly impressed her; and after we had left the Musée she showed it by questioning me about him.

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man James Weldon Johnson 1904

These and such-like amusing anecdotes show the genuine and unpedantic side of Shelley's character, the delightfully natural and loveable personality which is ever allied to genius.

Mrs Shelley Rossetti, Lucy M 1890

These and such-like amusing anecdotes show the genuine and unpedantic side of Shelley's character, the delightfully natural and loveable personality which is ever allied to genius.

Mrs. Shelley Lucy Madox Brown Rossetti 1868