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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Not conforming to the principles or criteria of art.
  • adjective Lacking taste or interest in art.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not artistic; not conformable to the rules or principles of art; deficient in liking for or appreciation of art.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Lacking in artistic ability.
  • adjective Not done in an artistic style.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective lacking aesthetic sensibility

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Examples

  • Whether they ought to be called inartistic or not, we will leave time to decide, if it has not done so already; the Russian and other Slavonic composers, who are now coming more and more to the front, seem to be little in doubt as to their legitimacy.

    Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician Niecks, Frederick 1888

  • Whatever their source, there was, either in the composition itself or in his mode of playing, not a little of the inartistic, that is, the lawless.

    Mary Marston George MacDonald 1864

  • Every personal soul, however "inartistic," is an artist in this sense; and every personal life thus considered is an effective or ineffective "work of art."

    The Complex Vision John Cowper Powys 1917

  • Old portraits and any kind of inartistic picture or print were brought forth to gratify the eye unaccustomed to such monotony.

    Social life in old New Orleans : being recollections of my girlhood, 1912

  • In fact, for him to die elsewhere would be inartistic and insincere.

    The Gold Hunters of the North 2010

  • She was painfully inartistic, as Mr. Hofstram was happy to constantly point out to her.

    Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011

  • Timon changes from benevolence to sour misanthropy with a many inartistic abruptness, many readers feel.

    Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009

  • She was painfully inartistic, as Mr. Hofstram was happy to constantly point out to her.

    Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011

  • Timon changes from benevolence to sour misanthropy with a many inartistic abruptness, many readers feel.

    Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia admin 2009

  • His best stories, essays, and poems went begging among them, and yet, each month, he read reams of dull, prosy, inartistic stuff between all their various covers.

    Chapter 28 2010

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