(a.) Wanting art, knowledge, or skill; ignorant; unskillful.
(a.) Contrived without skill or art; inartistic.
(a.) Free from guile, art, craft, or stratagem; characterized by simplicity and sincerity; sincere; guileless; ingenuous; honest; as, an artless mind; an artless tale.
Example Sentences:
(1) And when people read these stories – so admirable in their brevity, so controlled in their emotion, so artful in their artlessness; their use, for example, of the term NAME REDACTED instead of a character’s actual name to better show what is happening to a stranger is not an individual act, but a universal crime.” In his speech, titled Does Writing Matter?
(2) But it's not just some hooligan's tag, like Google's artless Irish scam.
(3) She is petite, artlessly glamorous and lives in Hollywood with her TV writer boyfriend.
(4) The question is quite how much attention ought to be given to people who genuinely think the way to win an argument is to make some entirely artless and vile point about a person’s dead father.
(5) 75 min: Eboue is booked for an artless scythe on Puyol.
(6) There's a sort of weariness to her beauty and an artlessness to her style, and it's immediately obvious why she's so endlessly blogged about.
(7) There is an artlessness and innocence about him, still, even after everything that has happened.
(8) Nowadays these fairly artless books are seen as part of the pile of absurdity we think we have inherited from the 19th century, or silly and dangerous stories illustrating the worst part of who we used to be.
(9) One repercussion was welcome: several actors have told me that they were encouraged to change their performance styles by the remarkable artlessness of the early series featuring real people.
(10) After all, it wasn’t so long ago that the prime minister delivered the most artless version yet of her one joke, at the Spectator parliamentarian of the year awards.
(11) 8.32pm BST 45 min +1: Khedira is booked for an artless clatter on Villa in the centre circle.
(12) The photograph, Klara and Edda Belly-dancing (1998), by Nan Goldin, shows a girl of around the same age as Cherry Ripe dancing in a kitchen, wearing knickers and some artlessly draped shreds of coloured cloth.
(13) Her odd combo of artiness and artlessness, and the way she came across in interviews – at once guileless and guarded – made her a target for music-press mockery.
(14) What he discovers is a person simultaneously bizarre and mundane, affected yet artless.
(15) The largely artless skirmish continued until the 24th minute, when Norwich seized the lead following their first piece of composed play near their opponent’s area.
(16) Occasionally there are cultural moments where it seems right to pick a direction – to turn towards those who offer an ideal of who we as people might wish to be, and turn away from those who offer nothing, and do even that artlessly.
Genuine
Definition:
(a.) Belonging to, or proceeding from, the original stock; native; hence, not counterfeit, spurious, false, or adulterated; authentic; real; natural; true; pure; as, a genuine text; a genuine production; genuine materials.
Example Sentences:
(1) "The Republic genuinely wishes Northern Ireland well and that includes the 12.5% corporate tax rate," he said.
(2) The need here is to promote the development of genuinely participative models – citizens panels and juries, patient and community leaders, participatory budgeting, and harnessing the power of digital engagement.
(3) A case study of a patient with both documented genuine and hysterical pseudo-seizures demonstrates use of the model.
(4) "Their prioritising of pensioner spending over unemployment benefits fits with a picture seen across this generational work: they care about groups they see as being in genuine need and they put particular emphasis on helping those who have contributed."
(5) O rdinary hard-working people have genuine concerns about immigration, and to ignore immigration is to undemocratically ignore their needs.” Other than the resurgent importance of jam , this is the clearest message we are supposed to take out of Brexit.
(6) And in terms of genuine defence needs (as opposed to state militarism), what greater known threat is there to human security than the prospect of runaway climate change?
(7) They can genuinely believe their partner provoked them to commit the abuse, just so they could get them in trouble.
(8) These issues all need to be addressed before people feel like the economy is genuinely starting to recover.
(9) It's a genuine fear, to be terrified of being labelled a racist.
(10) If you're sincere and smart and genuine and lovable that's what's going to come across in your videos and tweets."
(11) 17 genuine tumors were found (39%): 8 germ-cell tumors, 7 cystomas respectively cystadenomas and 2 tumors of the gonadal stroma.
(12) A placebo effect could not definitely be ruled out, but the startling changes seen in patients who had been followed for years with other forms of therapy suggest strongly that this improvement was genuine.
(13) The present research focuses on indirect memory tests as a potential means of discriminating between those who genuinely suffer from amnesia and those who are simulating.
(14) Speed's mother said she had watched again some television footage of her son before his death and realised his smile didn't seem genuine as "it didn't extend to his eyes".
(15) Was Snare genuine, was the painting stolen, was he making it up?
(16) Much criticism, though, is based on genuine misunderstanding or a wild misrepresentation of reality – even in the pages of prestigious newspapers.
(17) There were no significant differences between the effects of genuine and sham acupuncture either on exercise test variables or on subjective variables.
(18) The training effect represents a genuine adaptation to repeated exercise but is short lived.
(19) Furthermore, when compared with our recent findings with mouse bone marrow cells, the effects, their magnitude and concentration dependence imply genuine species differences in the responses of mice and rats to these hormones.
(20) "Those shows are genuinely moving us forward as an industry, they are dragging the rest of us behind," he says.