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  • s  marked by lack of affectation or pedantry
    her talk was very unliterary"- W.D.Howells

  • In The Quest for Polar Treasures he describes with the same unliterary candor tall tales of further gold and fur hunts.
  • Virginia Woolf composed such letters by the thousandsquick, nervous jottings of the moment, full of teasing, deliberately haphazard and unliterary.
  • Wain is a traditional Englishman, but the kind from which little has been heard because the tradition he comes from is itself unliterary.
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  • Martin Amis in Telegraph.co.uk
    He thought he could dodge his way through life, but he couldn't dodge death,Amis says. "He was a completely unliterary figure. I don't even think he read my books, but he told me all I know about being in prison, sleeping rough, getting...

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