inartistic

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Recent Examples of inartistic Andre Iguodala put it in more cosmic terms, after Thursday night’s inartistic but somewhat encouraging 128-112 win over the Lakers in the final regular-season home game. Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Apr. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inartistic
Adjective
  • Their luxury lodging turned out to be unfinished FEMA tents, and gourmet food was actually boxed cheese sandwiches.
    Rachel Treisman, NPR, 24 Apr. 2025
  • Upstairs, a mid-chiseled wooden boar and horse are left unfinished in Joel's workspace, a guitar leans against the bedroom window sill, and a copy of Idiot's Guide to Space lies half read on the nightstand.
    EW.com, EW.com, 21 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Zendaya’s black sweater may be Louis Vuitton and her sunglasses Bottega Veneta, but everything feels lived-in and effortless, somehow including her massive engagement ring worn on unpolished fingers.
    Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 28 Mar. 2025
  • The tradeoff, often, is that these unpolished gems shine a bit brighter — and Campbell is certainly an example.
    Jeff Rueter, The Athletic, 21 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Wednesday's bizarre, inexact, and amorphous Rose Garden rally was a series of endless platitudes.
    Jason D. Greenblatt, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Freud’s notion of remembering, the inexact reiteration of what came before, is where creativity emerges—that slight drift from the original that lets something unlikely slip in.
    Namwali Serpell, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • While its consumer protection goals are laudable, its imprecise drafting introduces ambiguity that employers and background screening providers must now navigate.
    Alonzo Martinez, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
  • For the remaining treatments, their effectiveness was found to be inconclusive due to small samples, imprecise studies, or low and very low quality evidence.
    Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 20 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The barbed posts divided fans as some found the posts to be hilarious and others labeled them generally unprofessional and uncalled for.
    Moná Thomas, People.com, 15 Apr. 2025
  • This Resolution of Inquiry will allow Congress to review all the protocol breaches in order to put a stop to the slipshod and unprofessional handling of our national security and force protection responsibilities.
    Rebecca Beitsch, The Hill, 9 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Related Stories Whoever says this is unskilled work is either ignorant or lying.
    Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Photo: Focus Features/Everett Collection A Coen brothers riff on the spy genre, Burn After Reading is filled with self-mythologizing drunks, unskilled opportunists, and borderline morons.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • In Lumen and Crimson, each done in the last three months, the focus is on lone undressed women.
    Angelica Villa, ARTnews.com, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Captured in a shocking video obtained by KPNX, a woman could be seen completely undressed, pacing the aisle and belligerently yelling before takeoff.
    Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 7 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Meanwhile, their weird, imperfect, genuine selves remain hidden.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025
  • That meant the restorers had to take imperfect left sides of other inferior prints and digitally stitch them onto the Paramount print, a process that took several years and the efforts of dozens of archivists at multiple institutions.
    Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 22 Apr. 2025

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“Inartistic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inartistic. Accessed 27 Apr. 2025.

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