inartistically
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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TO flirt inartistically is like stepping on a woman's toes when you are waltzing with her; it gives her real pain.
From Reflections of a Bachelor Girl by Helen Rowland
It was this thoroughness, this absolute fairness, that made of his work and of his inartistically constructed books the tremendous and lasting success which they were.
From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
But the Fohn did not materialise; in the walnut and chestnut forest around them not a leaf stirred; and gradually the mountains cleared, became inartistically distinct, and turned a beautiful but disturbing dark-blue colour.
From In Secret by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
He may have fancied, as his friend Forster also did, that Pickwick was a rather jejune juvenile thing, inartistically planned, and thrown off, or rather rattled off.
From Pickwickian Manners and Customs by Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald
Menpes, in writing his biography for "Who's Who," stated that he was "inartistically born in Australia."
From The Awful Australian by Valerie Desmond
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