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unidiomatically

adv · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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adv

Meaning 1

In an unidiomatic way.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • January 21, 1867, Percy Smythe, 8th Viscount Strangford, Occasional Notes on Turkey [...] a curious little extract from an Athenian letter which appeared in the 'Globe' of Friday last, apparently either written in English by a Greek, or translated into English unidiomatically, and with manifest traces of a foreign original.

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History

Etymology

From unidiomatic + -ally or un- + idiomatically.