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unlettered
The Fun Stuff: And Other Essays

Naipaul claimed that he had not even been published in America until the 1970s, 'and then the reviews were awful--unlettered, illiterate, ignorant'.

—p.115 Wounder and Wounded (115) by James Wood
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puerile

not exaggerated or solipsistic or puerile or sentimental or solecistic

—p.103 Beyond a Boundary: Netherland as Post-Colonial Novel (100) by James Wood
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solecism

not exaggerated or solipsistic or puerile or sentimental or solecistic

—p.103 Beyond a Boundary: Netherland as Post-Colonial Novel (100) by James Wood
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macula

cricket is the macula of that mad vision

—p.101 Beyond a Boundary: Netherland as Post-Colonial Novel (100) by James Wood
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parochial

the seeming parochialism or irrelevance to America of cricket

—p.100 Beyond a Boundary: Netherland as Post-Colonial Novel (100) by James Wood
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