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unelaborate

  • a word derived from elaborate.
    elaborate
    adjective
    worked out with great care and nicety of detail; executed with great minuteness.

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She half turned, scanning me indifferently, and went on with her unelaborate music.

From San Crist?bal de la Habana by Joseph Hergesheimer

The tumbledown building had become a more worthy house of worship, unelaborate, but renewed.

From Destiny by Charles Neville Buck

This at once had the elements of a lie and the unelaborate truth; he couldn't see how his curiosity applied to him, and yet he was intent on its solving.

From Cytherea by Joseph Hergesheimer

His writings, few and unelaborate as they are, have won admiring praise from the judges whose verdict is fame.

From The Friendships of Women by William Rounseville Alger

His humour is unelaborate, he goes straight to the fact, and, having expressed its extraordinary and fantastic characteristics, he does not linger to develop his drawing into a decorative scheme.

From English Book-Illustration of To-day Appreciations of the Work of Living English Illustrators With Lists of Their Books by Rose Esther Dorothea Sketchley