unidiomatically

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English

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Etymology

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From unidiomatic +‎ -ally.

Adverb

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unidiomatically (comparative more unidiomatically, superlative most unidiomatically)

  1. In an unidiomatic way.
    • 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.