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unˈartful, a.
[un-1 7.]
1. Not artificial or contrived; artless.
1669Dryden & Davenant Tempest iii. (1670) 32 I'm sure unartful truth lies open In her mind, as Crystal streams their sandy bottom shew. 1693Congreve in Dryden's Juvenal xi. (1697) 291 A chearful Sweetness in his Looks he has, And Innocence unartful in his Face. 1713Guard. No. 127 Crt. Venus 70 Unartful Tears, and hectick Looks, that show With silent Eloquence the Lover's Woe. 1763Falconer Fond Lover 14 Since all her thoughts by sense refined, Unartful truth express. 1820W. Tooke tr. Lucian I. 147 Much less can it be affirmed, that it [sc. spunging] is an unartful art. 1899Verral in A. C. Brown Life E. W. Benson (1900) I. 219 The same delightful and unartful arts were displayed.
b. Free from artifice or cunning.
1703Rowe Fair Penit. ii. ii. 596 This Son, if Fame mistakes not, is more hot, More open, and unartful.
2. Displaying no technical skill; inartistic.
1675Cocker Morals 49 Rashness draws crooked and unartful Lines. 1703Savage Lett. Antients ix. 52 Beneath this humble Roof he stood, and this plain unartful Floor supported him. 1712Blackmore Creation iii. 179 So full of faults is all the unartful frame. 1759Goldsm. Bee No. 5. 90 To have almost every personage on the scene almost of the same character..was unartful in the poet to the last degree. 1883Pall Mall G. 24 Nov. 4/2 Prose which borrows in a manner pleasant enough in result, and by no means unartful, the more obvious and seductive attractions of verse.
b. Of persons: Unskilful, maladroit. rare.
1683A. Behn Yng. King ii. iii, I am a man, whose martial disposition Renders unartful in my language. 1709Mrs. Manley Secret Mem. (1720) IV. 88 A swift and sure Contempt succeeds upon what-ever the unartful Husband shall happen to do after.
Hence unˈartfully adv.
1724Swift Drapier's Lett. iii. Wks. 1841 II. 17/2 The report, which, although it be not unartfully drawn,..yet there was no great skill required to detect the many mistakes..in it. 1726― Gulliver iv. ii, Matts of straw, not unartfully made. 1793Minstrel III. 137, I discovered a door, not unartfully concealed by some rude chizeling in the rock. 1840Thackeray Pict. Rhapsody 116 This plan has been not unartfully contrived. |