artificialness
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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First he tried making it with just pistachios, but he says, "It didn't have the same, I hate to say it, artificialness to it."
From Salon ● Apr. 10, 2023
At the same time, the pictures reveal the artificialness of the color, highlighting darker hair strands to some degree in every piece.
From New York Times ● Aug. 8, 2018
Must I be forced to speak with a plainness that will, by comparison, make all my previous plainness seem the very essence of polite artificialness?
From Fr?ulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther by Elizabeth von Arnim
Of late she has not been so blind to Dora's artificialness as she used to be.
From The Haunted Chamber A Novel by Duchess
"They are subtile but good," Li Wan rejoined; "for there's no artificialness or stiffness about them."
From Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by H. Bencraft Joly
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