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This bleak little story about a criminal who fell in love with the abused wife of the prison warden could have been made credible only by thoughtful, undecorative realism.

From Time Magazine Archive

Among the undecorative additions of the latter period, are the deserted works of a glass-house, and a dog-kennel. 

From A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire by Barber, J. T.

He was a rash man who ranked the flying buttresses as a sign of defective construction, indicating structural weakness, meaningless and undecorative ornament, and what not.

From The Cathedrals of Northern France by McManus, Blanche

Several competitors—Littleton among them—had come in person to explain the merits of their respective drawings, and by the side of solid, red-bearded, undecorative Mr. Cass, Littleton may well have seemed a dandy.

From Unleavened Bread by Grant, Robert

The difference between decorative and undecorative work is clearly explained with the aid of many illustrations, and these are of the right size for tracing and working.

From Dress design An Account of Costume for Artists & Dressmakers by Hughes, Talbot