Example Sentences

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Keats referred to himself as a “camelion Poet”: “the poet has . . . no identity—he is certainly the most unpoetical of all God’s Creatures.”

From The New Yorker • Oct. 27, 2019

When the 1990s brought an emphasis on art being viewed as unspiritual, unpoetical, socioeconomic evidence, the perspective on Cole changed.

From New York Times • Mar. 15, 2018

An unpoetical but potato-providing suitor is close at hand.

From Time Magazine Archive

Allegory is used as an elegant method of avoiding unpoetical plainness, and is an easy means of substituting logic for imagination.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various

The traveller who visits the Roman Forum, or the Palace of the Cæsars, experiences a sad check when he finds his progress impeded by unpoetical obstacles.

From My Unknown Chum by Fairbanks, Charles Bullard