unsmartly

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adverb

Without a smart appearance; looking shoddy or unfashionable.

Scrabble 14
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Meanings

adverbunsmartly (comparative more unsmartly, superlative most 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
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    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
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APA

unsmartly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unsmartly

MLA

“unsmartly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unsmartly. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unsmartly,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unsmartly.

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