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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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Etymology of 'Artless'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Artless" Quotes from Famous Books

... copper bits of coin, averaging about sixty-four to the rupee. However, you soon come to know the coolies by sight, and after some experience are rarely 'taken in,' but many young beginners get 'done' most thoroughly till they become accustomed to the tricks of the artless and unsophisticated coolie. ...

— Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier - Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter • James Inglis

... Jenny brings him ben; A strappin youth, he takes the mother's eye; Blythe Jenny sees the visit's no ill ta'en; The father cracks of horses, pleughs, and kye. The youngster's artless heart o'erflows wi' joy, But blate an' laithfu', scarce can weel behave; The mother, wi' a woman's wiles, can spy What makes the youth sae bashfu' and sae grave, Weel-pleas'd to think her bairn's respected like ...

— Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns • Robert Burns

... weep, [m] When on her knee she rocks her babe to sleep: Tremblingly still, she lifts his veil to trace The father's features in his infant face. The hoary grandsire smiles the hour away, Won by the charm of Innocence at play; He bends to meet each artless burst of joy, Forgets his age, and acts again the boy. What tho' the iron school of War erase Each milder virtue, and each softer grace; What tho' the fiend's torpedo-touch arrest Each gentler, finer impulse ...

— Poems • Samuel Rogers

... can be little doubt but that more pathetic situations and sentiments, that is, those which have a greater proportion of pain connected with them, may be endured in metrical composition, especially in rhyme, than in prose. The metre of the old ballads is very artless; yet they contain many passages which would illustrate this opinion; and I hope, if the following Poems be attentively perused, similar instances will be found in them. This opinion may be further illustrated ...

— The Prose Works of William Wordsworth • William Wordsworth

... 'mang birken bushes, By a burnie's dimplit linn, I told my love with artless blushes To ...

— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. - The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century • Various

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