unlearnedly
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[edit]Adverb
[edit]unlearnedly (comparative more unlearnedly, superlative most unlearnedly)
- In an unlearned manner.
- 1878, N. Bailey., Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I.[1]:
- And those Affectators of Variety seem equally ridiculous, who, when they have spoken barbarously once, repeat the same Thing much more barbarously; and then over and over again much more unlearnedly.
- 1892, Charles Lamb, The Best Letters of Charles Lamb[2]:
- Better far for such victims had they, instead of aspiring to the vanities of a "classical education," sat, like Keats, unlearnedly at the feet of quaint Chapman, or Dryden, or even of Mr. Pope.