unlibrarianly

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

un- +‎ librarianly

Adjective[edit]

unlibrarianly (comparative more unlibrarianly, superlative most unlibrarianly)

  1. Not librarianly.
    • 1994, G. B. Hummer, West of the Sun, page 335:
      Her speech was as clear and carefully chosen as a librarian's, but under it ran a stream of unlibrarianly good humor.
    • 1996, Martha Cornog, Timothy Perper, For Sex Education, See Librarian, page 100:
      Still, while Alternative Press Index includes Off Our Backs, no one indexes On Our Backs or Libido — let alone such unlibrarianly documents of current culture as Hustler and Screw.
    • 2005, Bette Anderson, Faces You Meet: Short Stories:
      It was an old joke. During our frequent fights he'd always made fun of my work, explaining afterwards that he was just kidding. I was really as unlibrarianly as anyone he knew.