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Definition of arty
artier
;artiest
: showily or pretentiously artistic arty lighting and photography
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Examples of arty in a Sentence
some arty intellectual type who doesn't know the meaning of hard work
a rock band with arty pretensions
Recent Examples of arty from the Web
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Stewart's Come Swim is by a wide margin the most self-consciously arty entry here, an expressionistic collage full of drowning imagery and whispered voiceover conversations.
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But this particular family-centric American circus never wanted to be the French-Canadian Cirque du Soleil, with its arty music, expensive ducats and elaborate mise en scene.
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One striking sequence assembles an audio montage of clients testifying to how they’d been bilked, over a succession of arty black-and-white photos.
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First, the basics: Kawakubo was born in 1942, began her enterprise in 1969, and blew up in the ’80s selling arty ladies an anti-yuppie option for dressing powerfully.
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In the three weeks since that crazy Oscars conclusion, La La Land star Ryan Gosling has rebounded with another film that seems to fit his arty aesthetic: Terrence Malick’s largely improvised Song to Song.
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First Known Use of arty
1901
arty
Definition of arty
artillery
ARTY Defined for English Language Learners
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playDefinition of arty for English Language Learners
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: artistic in a way that seems insincere or too extreme
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