a. (UN-1 7.)
In frequent use from c. 1880.
1820. Lamb, Austral. Poetry, Wks. 1908, I. 251. To go and administer tedious justice in inauspicious unliterary Thief-land.
1868. Hook, in Stephens, Life (1878), II. 482. Here we are very unliterary.
1885. Howells, Silas Lapham (1891), I. 235. Her talk was very unliterary.