inartistically
Americanadverb
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They are meant to mark all sorts of property and chattels, dead and alive, movable and immovable, and are drawn out, or burnt into, quite inartistically, without any attempt of colouring or sculpturing.
From Notes and Queries, Number 190, June 18, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by George Bell
Even when the Brussels influence was most direct the flowers and sprays were placed inartistically, while the scroll copies of the early Flemish schools can only be termed the imitative handiwork of a child.
From Chats on Old Lace and Needlework by Emily Leigh Lowes
He had reached however inartistically the point at which he had been aiming.
From Ensign Knightley and Other Stories by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
It was so small, and so inartistically cut, that a man could undoubtedly make a dozen of them in a day.
From The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II by Alexander Leslie
They are at many points inartistically constructed; but the stuff is good, and the works therefore hold their own in spite of these drawbacks.
From Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 by Various
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