unscholarly

It is, therefore, appropriate that someone of Greek heritage is responding to the fact that many institutions of higher education are infested by unscholarly activists who are chagrined about this civilization.

Dr. Brown said such a statement was unscholarly.

Ahead of the rule’s adoption last year, University of Chicago law professor Will Baude wrote in Reason magazine that it was “legally misleading, morally misguided” and “unscholarly.”

Elaine Pagels, reviewing it, writes that “readers intrigued with the questions Miles raises will find his new book, and especially his ‘concluding unscholarly postscript,’ filled with a prominent scholar’s provocative insights.”

If it seems odd to mourn the decline of inventive swearing, it’s also an insightful, decidedly unscholarly way to show cultural changes.