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It can be easy to dismiss these forms as the worthwhile but fundamentally unliterary assemblage of facts into paragraphs.

From Slate • Nov. 18, 2019

“I’m laughing all the time, making jokes, and, if you’ll excuse the unliterary phrase, messing around,” he told me.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 25, 2019

Actually, Polk rightly described herself as a “poor correspondent,” for her few remaining letters are thin and decidedly unliterary.

From New York Times • Feb. 14, 2019

Edith Wharton, brought up in a wealthy, unliterary "gilded age" family in the 1860s and 70s, was forbidden by her mother to read any novels until after she was married.

From The Guardian • Jul. 5, 2012

This, with his derivation from one of the unliterary Boston suburbs, and his unambitious residence in a place like Hatboro', gave her a sense of provinciality in him.

From Annie Kilburn : a Novel by Howells, William Dean