artily
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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Whether by way of Tarantino’s ironic distance or Iñárritu’s artily masochistic extremes, it’s genuine empathy and self-reflection that get short-circuited, swamped by surface values of aesthetics, technical achievement and shocking, vicarious jolts.
From Washington Post • Dec. 22, 2015
Indeed, “Mourning Son” barely touches on Jane’s Addiction, the artily debauched band Mr. Navarro joined in 1986.
From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2015
Across The Bay's jockey Henry Brooke has already played a part in the 2014 Grand National, impressing producers with his artily moody performance in a TV trailer.
From BBC • Apr. 1, 2014
Finally, there's Firemen Don't Fly, which is as artily lovely as anything from the recent Wild Beasts album.
From The Guardian • Jul. 21, 2011
I ain't not a pertickler good speller myself, but I reely shoud be artily ashamed of sich a blunder as that.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, July 4, 1891 by Various
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