Crossword-Solution: INARTISTIC
We have 14 clues for the answer “INARTISTIC”
| Clue | Answers |
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| INARTIFICIAL | 1 answer |
| Lacking in drawing power? | 1 answer |
| Lacking in taste | 1 answer |
| Near the bottom of the drawers? | 1 answer |
| unaesthetic | 4 answers |
| untalented | 30 answers |
| Tawdry | 31 answers |
| homely | 42 answers |
| guileless | 50 answers |
| Unbecoming | 53 answers |
| grotesque | 63 answers |
| Inelegant | 64 answers |
| Gauche | 70 answers |
| Ingenuous | 72 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EETAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with INARTISTIC (5)
Whole families of perfectly inartistic English and Americans might then he heard conscientiously admiring the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel or Leonardo's Last Supper (Botticelli had not been invented then) in the choicest guide-book language.
But for all who saw them through a less mythical medium, the Miss Irwines were quite superfluous existences—inartistic figures crowding the canvas of life without adequate effect.
There was a half-moon lying over on its back, and incredibly bright in the midst of a faint grey sky set with faint stars: a very inartistic moon, that would have damned a picture.
But let us leave such an inartistic subject and return to beautiful and comely things, remembering that the art which would represent the spirit of modern newspapers would be exactly the art which you and I want to avoid—grotesque art, malice mocking you from every gateway, slander sneering at you from every corner.
Indeed, I fear that the inartistic temperaments of the day busied themselves also in matters of literature and art, for the accusations of plagiarism were endless, and such accusations proceed either from the thin colourless lips of impotence, or from the grotesque mouths of those who, possessing nothing of their own, fancy that they can gain a reputation for wealth by crying out that they have been robbed.
Quotes with INARTISTIC (3)
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.
The inartistic methods that we use to blunt anxiety and unartful expedients that we resort to in order to escape pain and numb banality reveals what we dread most, the act of suffering from a mortal loss or the debasement that we earn by wallowing in our decadent acts of escapism.
It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in suchan inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, theirabsolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lackof style. They affect us just as vulgarity affects us. They give usan impression of sheer brute force, and we revolt against that. Sometimes, however, a tragedy that possesses artistic elements ofbeauty crosses our lives. If these elements of beauty are real, thewhole thing simpl…
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1971–2013).