(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.
Guileless
Definition:
(a.) Free from guile; artless.
Example Sentences:
(1) The crucial additional feature of his nature, however, was that the apparently guileless charm was accompanied by a razor-sharp shrewdness.
(2) He is without a doubt the most guileless and gauche politician I have ever met.
(3) These horrors are undeniable, but the use of memoirs intended to distance their authors from Nazism by depicting Hitler's clique as contemptible reinforces the sense of Germans as guileless victims.
(4) We don't associate the slipperiness of memory with the guilelessness of youth.
(5) So Katherine Parkinson, four years in shoulder-pads as guileless office manager Jen in Channel 4 sitcom The IT Crowd (and outfitted pretty identically for her role as maitre d' Caroline in recent BBC comedy Whites ) is relishing a change of threads for her role in Season's Greetings at the National.
(6) Plus of course to stop smiling that peculiarly guileless smile, the look of a man who’s just been hit on the head with a rock and thinks it’s the best thing that’s ever happened to him.
(7) Still others come out of love, a guileless love for a country they don't yet know but that they hope will be all they've dreamed.
(8) Here, the guileless Rowlf turns WereRowlf; the bloodline goes back to the "Wild Man" of medieval art, a folkloric furry man-beast of the woods that Rowlf makes his own.
(9) Michael Rubinstein, solicitor for the publishers Penguin, was a friend of her father, who persuaded her to take the stand, judging correctly how lucid and guileless her evidence would be.
(10) His appeal was his guileless mien and a left hook that terrified opponents two and three stones bigger than him almost as much as his easily sliced eyebrows shocked sensitive onlookers.
(11) For the guileless pathos of that statement alone, I could forgive Hitchens almost anything.
(12) It's the fundamental Cage paradox: the guilelessness that makes his performance.
(13) I looked into his guileless, headteacher's countenance.
(14) Second, there is a winning boyishness to him – he’s serious, intense, guileless.
(15) Then the naughty boy can run rings round nanny, explaining, all guileless innocence, that he wasn't playing with the toys, just with the box.
(16) There is an endearing guilelessness to Criado-Perez.
(17) 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.
(18) The way he enthuses about film is guileless, like a kid.
(19) Simon Cowell is musically irrelevant” – not even Walsh himself could have mistaken the outburst for anything other than guileless insecurity.
(20) She seems gawky and guileless, a galumphing work in progress; “more goose than swan” in the view of New York Times critic AO Scott .