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  • noun Absence of style.

Etymologies

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styleless +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • But if the film's lack of comedy and general stylelessness isn't bad enough, the overbearingly literal voiceover totally kills it.

    Archive 2007-12-01 Ed Howard 2007

  • But if the film's lack of comedy and general stylelessness isn't bad enough, the overbearingly literal voiceover totally kills it.

    Short Film Week, Day 4: Haynes, Melville, Saul Levine Ed Howard 2007

  • It is to combat the stylelessness of many contemporary writers that the destructive kind of criticism is just now most necessary.

    The Art of Letters Robert Lynd 1914

  • One cannot altogether acquit Mr. Masefield of a hasty stylelessness in some of those long poems which the world has been raving about in the last year or two.

    The Art of Letters Robert Lynd 1914

  • Perhaps it is not quite fair to call it the heresy of stylelessness: it would be more accurate to describe it as the heresy of style without pains.

    The Art of Letters Robert Lynd 1914

  • Unhappily, many excellent writers as well have used their gift of style to publish the praise of stylelessness.

    The Art of Letters Robert Lynd 1914

  • The heresy of the stylelessness is considerably older than that.

    The Art of Letters Robert Lynd 1914

  • In this, Jindal gave the American people a clear choice between style and substance or, more accurately, between stylish substance and an odd sort of empty stylelessness.

    Ridiculopathy.com 2009

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