unrussian
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unrussian (comparative more unrussian, superlative most unrussian)
- Not Russian.
- 1950, Envoy, volumes 3-4, page 40:
- Everything from the dried salmon, which one swallows down with vodka to the conversations that one hears, is in some way unique and unrussian. While I voyaged down the Amur I had a feeling that I was not in Russia […]
- 1961, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, The Spirit of Russia, volume 2, page 490:
- On the other hand, in religious matters Asia from early days exercised considerable influence upon Russia, and Leont'ev's fondness for the stationary characteristics of Asiaticism was not wholly unrussian.