unorganic

There's a grim ring of truth to the episodes in which Mattie and her siblings make their own entertainment watching insects skitter across the surface of a septic tank; and there's no doubt that she knows her stuff when it comes to discussing tetraploid Italian ryegrass and distinctly unorganic compounds with names such as Promax.

Hill Farm by Miranda France – review 2011

Before retreating home I used unorganic but nonchemical warfare in the form of a water attack on the green zone to flood the survivors and drown the weakened stragglers.

2008 July 04 « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008

While many women embrace an organic, all-natural look, just as many if not more have opted for the artifice of an unorganic, unnatural look—read: color.

What Women Want Paco Underhill 2010

While many women embrace an organic, all-natural look, just as many if not more have opted for the artifice of an unorganic, unnatural look—read: color.

What Women Want Paco Underhill 2010

Before retreating home I used unorganic but nonchemical warfare in the form of a water attack on the green zone to flood the survivors and drown the weakened stragglers.

The Ants Go Marching Two By Two, Hurrah Hurrah « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008

Not only did such ideas support racism and fascism in politics, but they themselves were supported only by radically mistaken arguments concerning the nature and explanation of organic and unorganic matter.

Vienna Circle Uebel, Thomas 2006

Wordsworth, however, sees this link in much more psychological terms than Shelley: "To unorganic natures I transferred/My own enjoyments, or, the power of truth/Coming in revelation, I conversed/With things that really are" (1805, II, 410-13).

The Loves of Plants and Animals: Romantic Science and the Pleasures of Nature 2001

I don't have to tell you that the nature of such thinking from their inorganic brains is unorganic, probably not radiating waves a Lensman customarily expects.

The Dragon Lensman Kyle, David, 1919- 1981

This "animism," or identifying imagination, by means of which the child or the primitive man or the poet transfers his own life into the unorganic or organic world, is one of the oldest and surest indications of poetic faculty, and as far as we can see, it is antecedent to the use of verbal images or symbols.

A Study of Poetry Bliss Perry 1907

Even an unusual angular form, like a crooked twig or inorganic substance, may be protective; as Mr. Poulton thinks is the case with the curious caterpillar of Notodonta ziczac, which, by means of a few slight protuberances on its body, is able to assume an angular and very unorganic-looking appearance.

Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868