inartistic
Americanadjective
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lacking in artistic sense or appreciation.
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not artistic; not aesthetically appealing.
inartistic grafitti.
adjective
Other Word Forms
- inartistically adverb
Etymology
Origin of inartistic
Example Sentences
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His swing was an inartistic whir of elbows, shoulders and knees that resulted in a hook.
From Golf Digest • Apr. 1, 2019
Criticize the music’s simplistic emotions, earworm hooks, instant clichés, and crowd-pleasing exhortations as much as you’d like, the movie suggests, but don’t misunderstand it as insincere or inartistic, as selling out or pandering.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 5, 2018
Highlight of the year: Jack Jewsbury's net-seeking missile that produced a stunning though inartistic 1-0 win in Vancouver.
From The Guardian • Dec. 5, 2012
So Pine & Thomas reduced their plots to two inartistic formulas.
From Time Magazine Archive
C. Lucilius invented satire, by first imparting a definite purpose to an inartistic kind of metrical composition, in which miscellaneous topics had been treated in accordance with the occasional mood or interests of the writer.
From The Roman Poets of the Republic by Sellar, W. Y.
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