Unbibliophilic

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Not bibliophilic. not-comparable, rare

    "[...] those pencilled M notes of exclamation or " obstinate questionings " — never fated to be answered, it would seem ; those vacuous remarks, spoiling the fair margins of a book like a dead fly, shut up between their imprisoning walls untimely, or a dried leaf placed there by the deliberate villainy of some unbibliophilic reader."

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"[...] those pencilled M notes of exclamation or " obstinate questionings " — never fated to be answered, it would seem ; those vacuous remarks, spoiling the fair margins of a book like a dead fly, shut up between their imprisoning walls untimely, or a dried leaf placed there by the deliberate villainy of some unbibliophilic reader."

Etymology

From un- + bibliophilic.

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