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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We tend to see Hopper’s pictures now as unique, as central to our sense of early-20th-century America: plainspoken, free of artiness, content to offer a blunt, disquieting vision of our urban lives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
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
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
