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artiness

  • a word derived from arty.

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His wildly inventive guitar playing — pairing the crisp, funky precision of Parliament and Chic with the chaotic artiness of U.K. punk — influenced generations of acts to follow.

From Los Angeles Times • May 16, 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

The laborious artiness of the short, self-consciously cryptic scenes that make up large swaths of the play start to chafe pretty early on — the stage direction “they sew” plainly valuing activity over speech.

From New York Times • Dec. 2, 2016

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 Holliday, Robert Cortes