Adjective : idiomatic French. ,idiomatic writing; an idiomatic composer. From Dictionary.com.
"unidiomatic," furnishing numerous examples from varied sources that inadvertently prove the adjective to be inapplicable. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol 1 No 3] Reference
Besides being unidiomatic, the sentence would be unmeaning. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
It's unidiomatic and dramatically sort of obvious, but it's enjoyable. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-12-01] Reference
And however unidiomatic his style, it is very graceful and flowing, and lends. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction] Reference
The thing is, as I keep saying, musically and dramatically, it's unidiomatic. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-12-01] Reference
“One of the only” is not unidiomatic or illogical or ungrammatical, but it is puffery. From Wordnik.com. [More on ‘one of the only’ | Linguism] Reference
Musically, it's i.e., the Boulez/Chéreau production from 1976-80 at Bayreuth unidiomatic. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-12-01] Reference
Compare the following idiomatic expressions with the unidiomatic expressions that succeed them. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Grammar and Composition] Reference
But the distinction between idiomatic and unidiomatic expressions is a fine one, and rests solely on usage. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Grammar and Composition] Reference
But "LeAnn Rimes," the 17-year-old star's new CD of country classics, may be uniquely bizarre: not because it's unidiomatic, but because it's so emotionally empty. From Wordnik.com. [An Abc Of Country Song Covers] Reference
But it is surely unidiomatic, as a Google Fight reveals; a search through Google News shows an even more lopsided tally, 200:1 in favor of “set them up” rather than 20:1. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Trying Too Hard? [UPDATE: Or Maybe Just Making a One-Off Mistake]] Reference
Rather than invoking the impossible "ununpacked," the sentence could have read: "Their boxes lay on the kitchen floor, still not unpacked," which to me sounds not unidiomatic. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: STILL UNPACKED.] Reference
Mr. Li, born in 1982 in Chongqing, China, has been a precious antidote to the wildly popular, although crassly unidiomatic and unmusical Lang Lang, also a Deutsche Grammophon pianist. From Wordnik.com. [Why Yundi Li Got Cut] Reference
There must be a rhetorical or other term for grammatical, meaningful and intelligible but unidiomatic phrases which native speakers seldom use because some particular phrase is dominant. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: THE BENCH.] Reference
Zaeef's book is well written and its Afghani unidiomatic English has been brushed up into readable and lucid prose by the painstaking work of the editors, Alex Stick van Linchoten and Felix Kuehn. From Wordnik.com. [Ehsan Azari: Tales of the Taliban in Their Own Words] Reference
L Minor errors - syntax, grammar error, ambiguity, convoluted structure, unidiomatic structure, unacceptable loan translation. l Minor errors - breach of spelling, punctuation or typographical conventions. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-03-01] Reference
Cnst. The construction of the sentence is awkward or unidiomatic. From Wordnik.com. [English: Composition and Literature] Reference
"Two readers, no fewer, have sent me ..." would be unidiomatic and ludicrous. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 2] Reference
We start with a sentence that is entitled to its the, but otherwise unidiomatic. From Wordnik.com. [Comparatives and Superlatives.] Reference
The fact that neither author's first language is English shows in stilted and unidiomatic writing. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VIII No 4] Reference
Bouchard has given him a doomed, unidiomatic vocal part in a glamorous but insurmountable orchestral context. From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference
People who try the unidiomatic than might rearrange as follows: "Our rooms are in opposite wings of the building.". From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 2] Reference
The expressions of which it is reminiscent are benefit of the doubt and benefit of clergy, so the a seems oddly unidiomatic and out of place. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XX No 1] Reference
Still more should the third, which is ambiguous as well as unidiomatic; the words used ought to mean seeing that her interests are safeguarded already. From Wordnik.com. [Prepositions.] Reference
Feldman wrote with that not-quite-in-tune, awkward, and clunky instrument in mind; does that make performances like this one - as beautiful as it was - unidiomatic?. From Wordnik.com. [Renewable Music] Reference
The book is marred by unidiomatic or unintelligible phrases and clueless syntax; by expressions such as 'the forger being', 'man's work equal', 'the adulteress wife', and. From Wordnik.com. [London Review of Books] Reference
Occasional turgidity of phrase and unidiomatic handling of language do not conceal the simplicity of the process by which Mr. Carlyle pierces through obstruction down to the abstrusest depths. From Wordnik.com. [Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I Essay 2: Carlyle] Reference
An inversion which is perhaps not more unidiomatic than Mr. Cary's. From Wordnik.com. [The Unseen World, and Other Essays] Reference
It’s completely unidiomatic and wrong to say I took out it; I paid off it; I held up it; I set upthem. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Trying Too Hard? [UPDATE: Or Maybe Just Making a One-Off Mistake]] Reference
3 Basic Some basic ability in handling the instrument / voice, but perhaps with some unidiomatic writing. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
It’s completely unidiomatic and wrong to say I took out it; I paid off it; I held up it; I set up them. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Trying Too Hard? [UPDATE: Or Maybe Just Making a One-Off Mistake]] Reference
(peaked) followed by an extended activity reaching to the present (have slipped) .... in B reason being because is unidiomatic. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The Chinese translation is definitely peculiar, so peculiar that almost every phrase includes an outright error or something grossly unidiomatic. From Wordnik.com. [Shanghaiist] Reference
Nanni stood before her, grave and respectful, she said, in her carefully correct, curiously unidiomatic Italian: "Nanni, I am not content to have you go back to Milan. From Wordnik.com. [A Venetian June] Reference
Or, at the very least, unidiomatic. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: THINKING FULL WELL.] Reference
Who with the body mortal make the soul "; -- an inversion which is perhaps not more unidiomatic than Mr. Cary's. From Wordnik.com. [The Unseen World and Other Essays] Reference
It’s highly unidiomatic. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Barred] Reference
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