Sciolistically

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 […]

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 […]

To treat it sciolistically is to forget that, in the beginning, "male and female created He them."

[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.

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.

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.

In October 1985, a London Times columnist, David Watt, viewed with alarm American gratification over the capture of the Achille Lauro terrorists. Sciolistically citing [Alexis] de Tocqueville, Watt fancied that American democracy is governed by little more than "a rush of blood to the head."

Someone in blackface would pluck a banjo and tell a few jokes, perhaps an itinerant Irish tenor would warble a hungover ballad, then things turned sciolistically scientific as Owen Tully Stratton sallied forth. He would sell various harmless but useless curealls (probably no better or worse than the proprietary medicines of today), […]