Unidiomatically
adv
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Definitions
Adverb
- 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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From unidiomatic + -ally.