sciolistically
Pronunciation Adverb
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Pronunciation Adverb
sciolistically
- In a sciolistic or sciolistical manner; in a manner that shows only superficial knowledge.
- 1944, Leonard Bloomfield, “The Loom of Language. By Frederick Bodmer. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, [1944]. Pp x+692, illustrated. [book review]”, American Speech, volume 19, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, OCLC 42448942 ↗, page 211; reprinted in Charles F[rancis] Hockett, editor, A Leonard Bloomfield Anthology, abridged edition, Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1987, 978-0-226-06071-2, page 281:
- If one were willing to ignore the tiresome, sciolistically facetious, and repetitious style of this book, its total lack of clarity and structure, and the errors and misunderstandings in which it abounds, there would remain the fact that in the state of its information it lies some decades behind Whitney's excellent popular books […]
- 1944, Leonard Bloomfield, “The Loom of Language. By Frederick Bodmer. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, [1944]. Pp x+692, illustrated. [book review]”, American Speech, volume 19, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, OCLC 42448942 ↗, page 211; reprinted in Charles F[rancis] Hockett, editor, A Leonard Bloomfield Anthology, abridged edition, Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1987, 978-0-226-06071-2, page 281:
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