rhetorical
adjective
used for, belonging to, or concerned with mere style or effect, rather than truth, substance, or meaning.
unrhetorical
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a word derived from
rhetorical.
Example Sentences
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Here was an ideal refuge in gaudy times, and a book tailor-made for rescue from oblivion: unassuming, unobtrusive, unrhetorical, uncoercive, unpretentious, an austere record of austere values.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 11, 2019
All of which means that, much as Inception unfolds as a series of puzzles, the reaction to it leaves me scratching my head and pondering mostly unrhetorical questions.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 16, 2010
Supremely honest, unrhetorical painting, it breathes the air of scrupulous anxiety.
From Time Magazine Archive
Anxious to strip his music to the barest, unrhetorical essentials, Webern indulged in angular, jumping melodies, subtle scoring effects and impressionistic, unrelated bits and scraps of themes.
From Time Magazine Archive
During the struggle of the States no man was more hearty in the cause than Franklin; and the depth of feeling shown in his letters, simple and unrhetorical as they are, is impressive.
From Benjamin Franklin by John T. (John Torrey) Morse
