idiomless
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idiomless (not comparable)
- without idioms.
- 1949, American Statistical Association, Journal of the American Statistical Association, volume 44, page 80:
- The eight proposed criteria of excellence are that: its sentences should be idiomless and ordered in wording; its words should be univocal in meaning, flectionless, phonetic in spelling and unique in pronunciation; its letters should be unique in sound and shape.
- 1960, John T. Saywell, editor, Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs, page 319:
- Certainly there is nothing fresh or exciting about his eclectic, idiomless, no-man's language, his monotonous, cluttered, trailing syntax, and his loosely shaped arguments.
- 2003, Northrop Frye, Northrop Frye on Modern Culture, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 199:
- It is a false analogy to say that because we should surrender national sovereignty we should also give up our language and all its literary possibilities for some dismal, idiomless Esperanto;