inartistically
Americanadverb
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Quite inartistically, indeed, he was born with a kind of strenuous averageness�which paradoxically managed to set him apart.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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 Fitzgerald, Percy Hethrington
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 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)
Hartmann is not treating this character inartistically, as a mere instrument for religious culture.
From Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature by McLaughlin, Edward Tompkins
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 Lowes, Emily Leigh
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