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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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"Artless" Quotes from Famous Books

... for us the curtain of the homely quadrangular interior, where we found twoscore or more of such simple folk as Fox might have preached to in just such a place. The only difference was that they now wore artless versions of the world's present fashions in dress, and not the drabs of out-dated cut which we associate with Quakerism. But this was right, for that dress is only the antiquated simplicity of the time when Quakerism began; and the people we now ...

— London Films • W.D. Howells

... unendurable, her heroism far more noble, than any which in more recent times have been so much pitied and so much applauded; but she was a simple missionary's wife, an American by birth, and she told her tale with an artless modesty—writing only what it became her to write, treating only of matters that became a woman. Her captivity, if so it can be called, was voluntarily endured. She of her own free will shared the sufferings of her husband, taking to herself no credit for anything she did; putting ...

— Lives of the Three Mrs. Judsons • Arabella W. Stuart

... of perfect health in her blood. Impulsive and ingenuous as she was, the girl had, at first, drawn near to her cousin, simply and naturally, obeying the law of attraction that draws the young toward the young. She had met his friendly advances with the immodesty of innocence, artless effrontery, the liberties taught by life in the country, the happy folly of a nature abounding in high spirits, and with all sorts of ignorant hardihood, unblushing ingenuousness and rustic coquetry, against which her cousin's vanity was without means of ...

— Germinie Lacerteux • Edmond and Jules de Goncourt

... little stool at her aunt's feet, turned an artless, inquiring face up to her. "What are the 'sights' of La Chance, Auntie?" ...

— The Bent Twig • Dorothy Canfield

... transparent that all men see him through. He is a man to make friends wherever on earth courage and integrity are esteemed,—the rarest of heroes, a pure idealist, with no by-ends of his own. Many of us have seen him, and everyone who has heard him speak has been impressed alike by his simple, artless goodness and his sublime courage. He joins that perfect Puritan faith which brought his ancestor to Plymouth Rock, with his grandfather's ardor in the Revolution. He believes in two articles—two instruments, shall I say?—the Golden Rule ...

— The Negro and the Nation - A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement • George S. Merriam

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