ornamental
adjective
used or grown for ornament.
unornamental
-
a word derived from
ornamental.
Example Sentences
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The crisp, cold, unornamental lines of his buildings, their rectilinear counterpointing of wide-eyed windows and bare, blind walls, shocked nobody.
From Time Magazine Archive
This was scarcely surprising, for the ornamental sex as represented at Shâlalai was, with very little exception, singularly unornamental; which, though paradoxical, was none the less fact.
From The Ruby Sword A Romance of Baluchistan by Mitford, Bertram
It is utterly slovenly-looking, and unornamental, abounds in slouching bar-room-looking characters, and looks a place of low, mean lives.
From A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
In these days of the plain French Republic,—of its sober, unornamental, business government,—the contrast is vivid with the glitter and "go" of Louis Napoleon's régime.
From A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees by Dix, Edwin Asa
Then there were some plain and unornamental phrases such as “Men weet nooit hoe een koe eenen haas vangt”.—This was labelled ‘proverbial expression’, and was translated, happily enough, by “The unexpected often occurs.”
From The Further Adventures of O'Neill in Holland by Brown, J. Irwin
