poetic
adjective
possessing the qualities or charm of poetry.
Example Sentences
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Connick unpoetically told the disappointed contestants in Room 2, who’d been told they would not continue in the competition.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2016
Just to make it look like a foursome, Stacy also invited Poetess Susan Grieve, who was unpoetically cold and prim.
From Time Magazine Archive
Her real name was Octavie, not Carry; that appellation we had most unceremoniously and unpoetically derived from "Cigar."
From In Bohemia with Du Maurier The First Of A Series Of Reminiscences by Felix Moscheles
But the Benares of today, which the Orientalists call the Athens of India, stands quite unpoetically on solid earth.
From Around the World in 80 Days Junior Edition by Jules Verne
His face, like certain tropical portions of the globe, was fissured, here and there, with small extinct volcanoes, defined by flat and greenish patches which Fourchon called, not unpoetically, the "flowers of wine."
From Sons of the Soil by Honoré de Balzac
