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[ adjective ] not written as or intended to be literature

Examples

"subliterary works such as letters and diaries"

Used in print

(Tristram P. Coffin, "Folklore in the American Twentieth...)

Enthusiastically , Americans have swept subliterary and bogus materials like Paul_Bunyan tales , Abe_Lincoln anecdotes and labor_union songs up as true products of our American oral tradition .

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informal

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