unpoetic
Americanadjective
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To their son’s early dismay, his parents were possessed of incurious minds and unpoetic souls.
From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2019
Catherine took on the coordinating task “using a very unpoetic spreadsheet”, and 70 or so poems quickly selected themselves.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 30, 2018
When he came up with the jarringly unpoetic opening words to “People Make the World Go Round,’’ Creed hated them: “Trash men didn’t get my trash today/Oh why, because they want more pay.”
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 15, 2018
This is a beautiful game, until it is poorly played, and then it is a cursed, haunting, unpoetic undertaking that really kind of hurts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2017
I rode the bus out there every morning to teach grammar and literature to the oddly unpoetic children of this endeavor.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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