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unsmartly

unsmartly adverb: without a smart appearance; looking shoddy or unfashionable.

Adverb

unsmartly (comparative more unsmartly, superlative most unsmartly)

  1. Without a smart appearance; looking shoddy or unfashionable.
    • […] this monocled, somewhat foolish-looking, unsmartly-dressed but knowledgeable aide […]1966, Kenneth Reid Van der Spuy, Chasing the Wind, page 64
    • In our private moments Dick Thomas and I used to act out his performance of stepping unsmartly back into my waste-paper basket!2022, Joel Greenberg, The Bletchley Park Codebreakers in Their Own Words
  2. Without intelligence; foolishly.
    • I confess that I was unsmartly naive. Now I need to fix my sexual trauma to be happy.2014, Hooseo B. Park, The Eight Answers for Happiness, page 101

Forms of unsmartly

comparativemore unsmartly
superlativemost unsmartly

Questions about unsmartly

What does unsmartly mean?
Unsmartly means without a smart appearance; looking shoddy or unfashionable.
What part of speech is unsmartly?
Unsmartly is an adverb.

Words near unsmartly in the dictionary

  1. unslutty
  2. unsly
  3. unsmacked
  4. unsmall
  5. unsmart
  6. unsmartly
  7. unsmartness
  8. unsmashable
  9. unsmeared
  10. unsmell
  11. unsmelled

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