Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Free from craft or cunning.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Without craft or cunning.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Without a
craft ;unskilled . - adjective Without craft;
boatless , etc.
Etymologies
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Examples
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If Ivan Massow, newly deposed chairman of the Institute of Contemporary Arts ICA, had been alive in the early 1960s when Andy Warhol was shocking the world with pop art he might well have used words similar to those he used to dismiss today's conceptual art: "pretentious, self indulgent, craftless tat".
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The novels read like the whiny, embittered diatribes that they are, craftless rants that seethe with resentment and make claims to providing the anti-myth to Hollywood's myth; however, they really only serve to reinforce a cliché in the reader's mind: that Hollywood is completely uncreative, petty, and full of abused, self-destructive narcissists.
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Every building was smothered in heavy porches and balustrades and balconies of craftless but elaborate woodwork.
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Every building was smothered in heavy porches and balustrades and balconies of craftless but elaborate woodwork.
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Every building was smothered in heavy porches and balustrades and balconies of craftless but elaborate woodwork.
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Every building was smothered in heavy porches and balustrades and balconies of craftless but elaborate woodwork.
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So easy, in fact, that a craftless hack like myself could figure it out - or at least sort of figure it out.
Wired Top Stories Liz Stinson 2011
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For a supposedly hard-nosed man, it's somewhat surprising to see what craftless tat some con artists have erected to persuade him to part with his cash.
Not PC 2010
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Massow had to resign as Chairman of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in 2002 after describing much conceptual art as "pretentious, self-indulgent, craftless tat".
Blaney's Blarney 2009
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- more than any other American working today, immediately strikes the novice viewer as precisely craftless, a series of nearly dissonant shifts in tone and dramatics from scene to scene, and within scenes too.
GreenCine Daily 2009
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