How to Use artless in a Sentence

artless

adjective
  • Her simple artless charm won us over instantly.
  • Polpette were artless spheres of cooked ground beef without enough salt or spice to give them life.
    — Bill Addison, latimes.com, 11 July 2019
  • Parcellin’s mostly black-and-white film revisits them, its artless, propulsive style like that of the music itself.
    — Peter Keough, BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2018
  • Cosentino has a rich, burly voice that’s unpretentious without feeling artless.
    — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
  • The diction is simple, the writing artless; the world of the novel, told in a basic third-person voice, claustrophobic.
    — E. Tammy Kim, The New York Review of Books, 7 Mar. 2019
  • That suits the artless, unfiltered way Yo describes her life, spending a fair amount of time recollecting her own childhood.
    — Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 20 Feb. 2026
  • The caricature of the artless American, like that of the ambassador, has its basis in truth.
    — Peter Savodnik, The Hive, 20 July 2017
  • On some slow or rainy day, when the tennis at Wimbledon is banging and artless as a metronome or suspended by weather, do yourself a favor.
    — Sally Jenkins, Anchorage Daily News, 3 July 2023
  • These artless snapshots annoy Noah, the grandson of a famous photographer.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Sep. 2019
  • All that’s there is an artless effort to provoke outrage — Tony Hinchcliffe with the world’s strongest Boston accent.
    — Joe Berkowitz, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2024
  • The words were printed on the magazine’s pages, strangely artless and awkward in their appearance, next to images of Bourgeois’s sculptural work.
    — Vogue, 29 Sep. 2017
  • The lyrics are as unadorned as her pole-work is impressive, a juxtaposition of plain, artless language and strenuous performance.
    — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 20 June 2019
  • Viewers, meanwhile, get artless plots with familiar faces in glamorous locations that offered decent tax incentives.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2025
  • His pictures look perfectly artless, the opposite of the decisive moment and the epitome of the snapshot aesthetic.
    — Vince Aletti, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2024
  • The musical result is at once direct and accessible, tonal and melodic, sophisticated and artless.
    — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 29 June 2017
  • The new group moved into a three-bedroom house in Maidenhead and began the sort of rigorous yet artless performance training that’s now a hallmark of the pop-band origin story.
    — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2022
  • In her practice, Palazzolo focuses heavily on industrial materials as a way of turning things perceived as artless or overtly masculine on their head.
    — Mario Rodriguez, Miami Herald, 23 Oct. 2025
  • At 90 minutes or less, this movie’s flat acting, choppy conversations, artless cinematography and sub-David Lynch surrealism would be easy to dismiss.
    — Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2019
  • The effort of analyzing this video, a piece of artless misinformation, was beneath Abu Hamdan, who has dedicated himself to unveiling the violence of the world through the medium of sound.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
  • On a frigid day where bright sunshine belied the miserable baseball conditions, a trio of timers positioned around the field at Nationals Park provided historic accompaniment to an artless struggle.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Its host—once the jerk who dismissed Khizr Khan as a Democratic Party prop—now scans as artless, a little oafish, congenitally straight-shooting, inherently trustworthy.
    — Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, 21 July 2017
  • By contrast, Erika is a vamp, a woman whose wardrobe encompasses high fashion and BDSM — maybe this is what makes Erika choose him to be her assistant, just as her icy, dominatrix cool appeals to the refreshingly artless Elliot.
    — Damon Wise, Deadline, 23 Jan. 2026

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