sciolistically
advUK /saɪəˈlɪstik(ə)li/
Etymology From sciolistic + -ally or sciolistical + -ly.
1
In a sciolistic or sciolistical manner; in a manner that shows only superficial knowledge.
- Weismann sciolistically charges epilepsy to microbes, explaining its greater maternal transmission by the exceedingly crude notion that since the ovum can carry more microbes than the spermatozoon, epilepsy occurs more frequently […]1902, The Medical News, volume 80, Philadelphia, Pa.: Henry C. Lea's Son & Co., →OCLC, page 295:
- To treat it sciolistically is to forget that, in the beginning, "male and female created He them."1917, William Lane, Selections from the Writings of "Tohunga" (William Lane), Auckland: Wilson & Horton, →OCLC, page 6:
4 more examples
- [O]ne cannot help sympathizing with an author who, in this era of the sciolistically psychological novel, of shallow realisms and valetudinarian introspections, undertakes a novel on wider premises and with the attempt, at least, of a wider view.1919, The Athenæum, London: J. Lection, →OCLC, page 1340:
- If Mr. [Thomas Stearns] Eliot is only intermittently and at times sciolistically a psychologist in his effort toward a scientific method, one must observe also that at the very basis of his attitude, where it is most explicit, in the essay called "The Perfect Critic," he is least scientific.1921 March 2, Conrad Aiken, “The Scientific Critic”, in Albert Jay Nock, editor, The Freeman, volume 2, New York, N.Y.: Freeman Inc., →OCLC, page 593:
- If one were willing to ignore the tiresome, sciolistically facetious, and repetitious style of this book, its total lack of clarity and structure, and the errors and misunderstandings in which it abounds, there would remain the fact that in the state of its information it lies some decades behind Whitney's excellent popular books […]1944, Leonard Bloomfield, “The Loom of Language. By Frederick Bodmer. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, [1944]. Pp x+692, illustrated. [book review]”, American Speech, volume 19, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, OCLC 42448942, page 211; reprinted in Charles F[rancis] Hockett, editor, A Leonard Bloomfield Anthology, abridged edition, Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1987, 978-0-226-06071-2, page 281
- Now, I have nothing against this attempt to integrate the art of music in subservience to the art of speech. It is a tradition dating back over 2500 years in Europe and perhaps much farther back in India and China. I do, however, want to see it competently done, not blindly and sciolistically, as is so much of the talking about contemporary music.1967, George List, Juan Orrego-Salas, editors, Music in the Americas [Inter-American Music Monograph Series; 1], Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Research Center in Anthropology, Folklore, and Linguistics, →OCLC, page 202:
- Related terms
- sciolism, sciolist, sciolistic, sciolistical