adv. (UN-1 11.)
1697. Dryden, Virgil, Notes 633. How unpoetically and baldly had this been translated: Thou shalt Marcellus be!
1756. J. Warton, Ess. Pope, I. 7. How coldly and unpoetically Pope has copied the subsequent appeal to the nymphs.
1786. Mrs. Delany, Life & Corr. (1862), II. 358. My poor muse has been asleep these thirty years, during which time I have been very unpoetically employed!