artless
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Definition of artless
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Synonyms & Antonyms for artless
Synonyms
genuine, guileless, honest, ingenuous, innocent, naive (or naïve), natural, real, simple, sincere, true, unaffected, unpretending, unpretentious
Antonyms
affected, artful, artificial, assuming, dishonest, dissembling, dissimulating, fake, false, guileful, insincere, phony (also phoney), pretentious
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Polpette were artless spheres of cooked ground beef without enough salt or spice to give them life. — Bill Addison, latimes.com, "The pizzeria in ‘Eat Pray Love’ has a new Hollywood knockoff. It’s a flop.," 11 July 2019 Brittany Murphy plays an artless, dorky pageant contestant named Lisa, and Amy Adams is Leslie, a contestant who occupies the obligatory role of slutty cheerleader. — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, "“Drop Dead Gorgeous,” Which Is Finally Streaming, Is Possibly My Favorite Movie of All Time," 5 July 2019 The lyrics are as unadorned as her pole-work is impressive, a juxtaposition of plain, artless language and strenuous performance. — Billboard Staff, Billboard, "The 20 Best Music Videos of 2019 (So Far): Staff Picks," 20 June 2019 The diction is simple, the writing artless; the world of the novel, told in a basic third-person voice, claustrophobic. — E. Tammy Kim, The New York Review of Books, "#KoreaToo," 7 Mar. 2019 Parcellin’s mostly black-and-white film revisits them, its artless, propulsive style like that of the music itself. — Peter Keough, BostonGlobe.com, "Punk rocking on both sides of the pond in ‘Boys From Nowhere’ and ‘Here to Be Heard’," 17 May 2018 The words were printed on the magazine’s pages, strangely artless and awkward in their appearance, next to images of Bourgeois’s sculptural work. — Vogue, "Louise Bourgeois’s Latest Show Is a Must-See for Women in the Digital Age," 29 Sep. 2017 But once, an artist residency meant something very different: being embedded squarely within regular life, an experience meant both to inspire artists and to infuse what were seen as artless environments with creativity. — Gisela Williams, New York Times, "Are Artists the New Interpreters of Scientific Innovation?," 12 Sep. 2017 Its host—once the jerk who dismissed Khizr Khan as a Democratic Party prop—now scans as artless, a little oafish, congenitally straight-shooting, inherently trustworthy. — Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, "News. Traffic. Weather. Trump.," 21 July 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'artless.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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artless
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