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Artless adj.

Wanting art, knowledge, or skill; ignorant; unskillful. "Artless of stars and of the moving sand."

Contrived without skill or art; inartistic. (R.) "Artless and massy pillars."

Free from guile, art, craft, or stratagem; characterized by simplicity and sincerity; sincere; guileless; ingenuous; honest; as, an artless mind; an artless tale. "They were plain, artless men, without the least appearance of enthusiasm or credulity about them." "O, how unlike the complex works of man, Heaven's easy, artless, unencumbered plan!"

Synonyms: Simple; unaffected; sincere; undesigning; guileless; unsophisticated; open; frank; candid.

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"Artless" Quotes from Famous Books

... introduced this conversation between Wilhelmina and Ramsay, to show not only what influence he had already gained over the artless yet intelligent girl, but also the way by which he considerately prepared her for the acknowledgment which he resolved to make to her on some future opportunity; for, although Ramsay cared little ...

— Snarley-yow - or The Dog Fiend • Frederick Marryat

... approval, she says, they are inclined to settle the date of the wedding for November, three months from the present time, that it shall take place here in the village, that I, of course, shall be bridesmaid, and many other particulars. She draws an artless picture of the probable effect upon the minds of the villagers of this romantic performance in the chancel of our old church, in which she is to be chief actor—the foreign gentleman dropping down like a god from the skies, picking her up, and triumphantly carrying her off. Her only ...

— A Changed Man and Other Tales • Thomas Hardy

... Nell then ever guess why her cheeks burned scarlet, and why she was so sorry when haying-time was over? She was sweet, innocent, artless, and their love was very natural, tender, innocent. It's a pity that all loves can not remain in just that idyllic, milkmaid stage, where the girls and boys awaken in the early morning with the birds, and hasten forth barefoot ...

— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 5 (of 14) • Elbert Hubbard

... summing him up his eulogists always added: "And you know he writes." As a matter of fact, the paying public had remained cold to his few published pages; but he lived among the kind of people who confuse taste with talent, and are impressed by the most artless attempts at literary expression; and though he affected to disdain their judgment, and his own efforts, Susy knew he was not sorry to have it said of him: "Oh, ...

— The Glimpses of the Moon • Edith Wharton

... whether judged historically or poetically. We know nothing of the authors of these poems, which treat of the heroic adventures of the great warriors and lovely ladies of the chivalric age in strains of artless but often exquisite beauty. Some of the subjects are borrowed in altered form from the old mythology, while a few derive from Christian legend, and many deal with national history. The language in which we receive these ballads, however, is as late as the 16th or even the 17th century, ...

— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 - "Demijohn" to "Destructor" • Various

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