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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... manhood, slavery, flow'd Through Afric's sons transmitted in the blood; Hereditary slaves his kindness shar'd, For manumission by degrees prepar'd: Return'd from war, I saw them round him press, And all their speechless glee by artless signs express." ...

— The True George Washington [10th Ed.] • Paul Leicester Ford

... hastily fill in a few blanks in my previous sketch of our island career and to pass on to features of novelty and interest—vignettes of certain natural and unobtrusive features of the locality, first-hand and artless. ...

— My Tropic Isle • E J Banfield

... having been determined by the boy's father that he should be a painter, and that art being unknown to the Abbe Charles and the village Cure (in which manner of ignorance, if the infallible Pope did but know it, he and his now artless shepherds stand at a fatal disadvantage in the world as compared with monks who could illuminate with color as well as word)—the simple young soul is sent for the exalting and finishing of its artistic ...

— On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) - A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature • John Ruskin

... very stout; in colour much lighter than the ordinary Indian tint, and her ways altogether were more like those of a careless, laughing country wench, such as might be met with any day amongst the labouring class in villages in our own country, than a cannibal. I heard this artless maiden relate, in the coolest manner possible, how she ate a portion of the bodies of the young men whom her tribe had roasted. But what increased greatly the incongruity of this business, the young widow of one of the victims, a neighbour of mine, happened to be present during the narrative, ...

— The Naturalist on the River Amazons • Henry Walter Bates

... perceive that no affectation and no insincerity are needed to enable you to improve in this precious power. Simplicity, naturalness, a truthful air and manner are, indeed, more frequently the result of labor than their opposites. It is hard, in this world of artifice, to be perfectly artless. ...

— The Young Maiden • A. B. (Artemas Bowers) Muzzey

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