Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Informal Of or relating to artists or the fine arts.
- adj. Informal Showily or affectedly artistic.
Wiktionary
- adj. Pretending to artistic worth; high-flown.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. showily imitative of art or artists.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. showily imitative of art or artists
Examples
“So-called "arty" movies actually do bear re-watching.”
“Their sound is perhaps best described as arty chamber rock, and like Department of Eagles many of their songs swell toward cathartic, unsettling conclusions.”
“I tend to like a lot of games that are "arty", but I would be wary of games becoming legitimate because with legitimacy comes stagnation and boredom.”
“He's been rebranded and his books now have soft-focus, introspective, "arty" covers.”
“You think: Must be an "arty" novel, full of interior scenes.”
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“Initially, Weston had been a leading exponent of pictorialism – a kind of arty, romanticised style of portraiture that took its cue from the Victorian painters like Whistler.”
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“She's an outspoken fan of Jeff Buckley and the kind of arty alt rockers he inspired.”
“If the films of Antonioni and Bergman and Bresson seem self-consciously "arty" it's partly because current films have again become so utterly formulaic.”
“When God Laughs" is a story that would never have passed muster under the keen editorial eye of Henry Mencken; indeed, it begged rejection under any editor, even in 1907 when the proliferation of "arty" magazines created an insatiable hunger for fiction, no matter how lousy.”
“I ain't never goin' to work again. . . . I'm plum tired out.”
“It saddens me firstly that such cliched views of Birmingham still exist and secondly that an 'arty' blog can be seen as not for 'serious people' although this is sadly indicative of the philistinism rampant in the mindset of this blog.”
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