(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.
Uncultivated
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Analysis of 16S rRNA sequences retrieved as cDNA (16S rcDNA) from the Octopus Spring cyanobacterial mat has permitted phylogenetic characterization of some uncultivated community members, expanding our knowledge or diversity within this microbial community.
(2) • Africa has 60% of the world's total amount of uncultivated arable land.
(3) The socio-economic structure of the village is mainly agropastoral, though, in the last decades, 50% of the ground has been left uncultivated due to emigration and commuting.
(4) Payments to farmers for leaving land uncultivated as a habitat for wildlife are to be brought back under proposals to be announced today by the environment secretary, Hilary Benn.
(5) Although five distinct cell types could be identified with classical stains in the uncultivated glands, the peroxidase-labeled antibody technique (using antibodies against STH, LTH, FSH, LH and TSH) showed that not all of the immune-specific cell types were being identified with the classical stains.
(6) The reasons were as follows: uncultivated green fields, forest herbage and needle-leaves are sufficient sources of game contamination; there exist evident differences between continuous ingestion of contaminated or mixed feed with respect to the cesium contamination of tissues.
(7) Habitats were in abandoned rice fields, uncultivated grazing areas for livestock, roadside ditches and, in one case, an actively worked rice field.
(8) The "set aside" scheme was in effect abandoned two years ago when the European commission announced that the percentage of land that had to be left uncultivated would be zero.
(9) The concentration of 239 + 240Pu in the uncultivated soil was 20 Bq kg-1, which was approximately eight times as high as that in the control districts.
(10) V3 envelope sequences were determined from amplified human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) sequences of uncultivated leukocytes obtained sequentially from four infected adults over the course of infection.
(11) The purpose of this experiment was to isolate the microscopically detectable but uncultivable acid-fast bacilli, using experimental infection system induced in nude mouse.
(12) A wide variety of uncultivated plant foods was eaten in the traditional diet: roots, starchy tubers, seeds, fruits and nuts.
(13) In this study, the distribution of 239 + 240Pu concentration in the uncultivated soil and the transfer factor of 239 + 240Pu to agricultural products in Nishiyama district were examined.
(14) The following tissues from the fetus at risk were investigated by electron microscopy and were found to be free of fingerprint profiles and curvilinear bodies, typical for JNCL: uncultivated amniotic fluid cells, lymphocytes isolated from fetal blood, and fetal skin biopsy specimens.
(15) Mangrove plants on the mudflats perished – the acreage was halved between the 1950s and 2009 – while nearby farming land became uncultivable.
(16) Prenatal diagnosis in those monitored with amniocentesis was carried out with DNA analysis of uncultivated amniocytes (19) or cultivated cells (38).
(17) When I visited last week, a deathly silence reigned, the only noise the chirruping of frogs in uncultivated rice paddies on the edge of town, and the bleeping of my dosimeter.
(18) Direct analysis holds promise for detecting markers of infection due to an uncultivable agent or in clinical specimens that presently require cultures and prolonged incubation to yield an etiologic agent.
(19) The recent awareness and interest in the pharmacology and toxicology of uncultivated mushrooms in North America and Great Britain should encourage continued active research.
(20) In addition to 16S rRNA genes from the marine Synechococcus cluster and the previously identified but uncultivated microbial group, the SAR11 cluster [S. J. Giovannoni, T. B. Britschgi, C. L. Moyer, and K. G. Field.