What's the difference between artless and wartless?
Artless
Definition:
(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.