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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But the movie smartly situates the whole process inside the larger institution, with the receptionist in the lobby providing a riotous counterbalance to all the artiness therein.
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2024
Soderbergh is a dedicated filmmaker whose career has incorporated mainstream crowd-pleasing and niche artiness, sometimes in a single production.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2023
For one thing, there’s not a trace of the later artiness.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 5, 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
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
