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inartificial

British  
/ ˌɪnɑːtɪˈfɪʃəl /

adjective

  1. not artificial; real; natural

  2. inartistic

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Yet when Wilson arrived at the White House, in 1913, he tried to improvise the “straightforward, inartificial party government” he had championed.

From The New Yorker Jan. 12, 2015

How necessary in art.require as opposing lines or masses in composition, the propriety of which, as well as their value, depends chiefly on their inartificial and natural invention.

From Modern Painters Volume II (of V) by John Ruskin

This is accounted rather an inartificial mode of informing the audience of the circumstances previous to the opening of the piece.

From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by John Dunlop

In these loose scenes of inartificial and burlesque pieces was the genius of Molière cradled and nursed.

From Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions by Isaac Disraeli

It is one good effect of this inartificial style, that nobody in England seems to feel any shyness about shoveling the untrimmed and untrimmable ideas out of his mind for the benefit of an audience.

From Our Old Home, Vol. 2 Annotated with Passages from the Author's Notebook by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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