arty
adjective
characterized by a showy, pretentious, and often spurious display of artistic interest, manner, or mannerism.
artiness
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a word derived from
arty.
Example Sentences
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For one thing, there’s not a trace of the later artiness.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 5, 2018
I envied them, but wondered if McDonagh's overblown reputation as a theatrical insurgent and the combination of Guadagnino's insistent artiness and Aciman's self-conscious literariness may have hoodwinked them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2018
And if producers want to balance it out with a little artiness, they can always look to Fox Searchlight’s prestige catalogue. Juno on Pandora.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 14, 2017
I reread “The Kiss” recently and was struck by its high-literary artiness and gauzy restraint.
From New York Times ● Jul. 18, 2017
Unusual this quaint street of art in this: in fixing it up for its present purpose its quaintness and its "artiness" have not been overdone.
From Turns about Town by Robert Cortes Holliday
