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
  • The film centers on Sebastián (singer Guitarricadelafuente), Carlos (Milo Quifes), and Alberto (Carlos González)—three gay men living in 1932, 1937, and 2017, respectively—who are connected by one of Lorca’s unfinished plays, La Bola Negra.
    — Elaina Patton, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2026
  • Not long ago, she and Peter Koskey got married, with the unfinished house as their wedding chapel.
    — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2026
Adjective
  • Celebrated as masterpieces today, at the time they were regarded as the unpolished works of a depressed, crazy man and commercially worthless.
    — Joan Martelli, Time, 17 Oct. 2026
  • One young fashion photographer who made a name for himself at indie mags like i-D with his unpolished images of a teenage Kate Moss, was Juergen Teller.
    — Sheena McKenzie, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2026
Adjective
  • Polls, while an inexact science, show that public trust in all institutions – especially government institutions – has been declining for years.
    — Henry Gass, Christian Science Monitor, 2 Oct. 2026
  • The polyester cloth was scratchy on my thighs, the fit inexact.
    — Benny Peterson, Vogue, 4 May 2026
Adjective
  • Measuring how much a baby eats typically requires weighing them directly before and after a feeding, and that’s an imprecise and cumbersome process.
    — Monique Brouillette, Time, 15 Oct. 2026
  • These lines bring me to understand that poetry itself is a kind of imprecise naming, but a naming nonetheless.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2026
Adjective
  • The whole was topped not by a cupola or a cross but a small pennant, on which the Festival emblem had been drawn in crayons in a rather amateurish hand.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2026
  • The show focuses on the fictional Toledo Truth Teller, an understaffed, more-than-slightly amateurish, failing publication that shares its office space with the Softees toilet paper company owned by its parent corporation.
    — Julie Hinds, Freep.com, 3 Sep. 2026
Adjective
  • While older generations may interpret limited eye contact, a flat expression or a pause before responding as rude, lazy or unprofessional, that might not be a younger person’s intent at all, Leahy said.
    — CNN Money, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Referee Adrian Hill was suspended for one game for unprofessional conduct toward Minnesota Vikings linebacker Eric Wilson.
    — Ryan Canfield OutKick, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2026
Adjective
  • An unskilled crew can raise a structural shell in weeks instead of months, and the finished building resists fire, mold, and Category 5 hurricane winds.
    — Joe Mullich, Time, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Persona did not see economic viability in the unskilled labor approach, Radford says.
    — Evan Ackerman, IEEE Spectrum, 17 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • The petition asked the Virginia State Board of Health to adopt regulations barring biological males from female-only athletic teams and competitions, as well as female spaces in which women and girls could be undressed.
    — Jackson Thompson OutKick, FOXNews.com, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Content created with generative AI, or gen AI, tools can include fake nude images and videos; deepfakes; and content from nudification tools and apps, which allow a user to generate a fake image that depicts people as undressed.
    — Avni Trivedi, CNN Money, 21 July 2026

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“Inartistic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inartistic. Accessed 29 Oct. 2026.

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