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Recent Examples of inartistic
Andre Iguodala put it in more cosmic terms, after Thursday night’s inartistic but somewhat encouraging 128-112 win over the Lakers in the final regular-season home game.
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Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Apr. 2022
Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Apr. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inartistic
Adjective
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If chores pile up or a co-worker leaves tasks unfinished, define what needs to happen on your end before taking action.—
Tarot.com,
New York Daily News,
22 Feb. 2026
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Leave large pieces unframed; unframed smaller works can make these pieces look unfinished.—
Ashley Chalmers,
The Spruce,
22 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Parker and his team wanted a sense of heart conveyed through the playful, tuneful, unpolished score.—
Sarah Shachat,
IndieWire,
23 Feb. 2026
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The Snodgrass version of the Van Nostrand was on display on a nearby table, unpolished.—
Ben McGrath,
New Yorker,
23 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Developing quarterbacks in the NFL always has been an inexact science, with mixed results each season for almost every team.—
D. Orlando Ledbetter,
AJC.com,
6 Feb. 2026
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Kikuchi and Imai are an inexact comparison.—
Chandler Rome,
New York Times,
6 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Scientists may be able to look at geographical data to estimate long-term glyphosate exposure instead, but that’s still an imprecise measure.—
Jackie Flynn Mogensen,
Scientific American,
27 Feb. 2026
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This may seem like semantic quibbling, but the stakes of imprecise legislation in this domain are quite high.—
Kevin Frazier,
Sun Sentinel,
22 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Through both instruction and practice, her once amateurish videos evolved into photojournalism.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Feb. 2026
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The wildly amateurish performances turn the story’s tragic high points into moments of unintentional goofiness.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
16 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Production assistants told Albuquerque police that Busfield was sometimes touchy or unprofessional.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA Today,
18 Feb. 2026
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The unprofessional outburst hung in the dugout air as the Phillies finished a win without Castellanos.—
Matt Gelb,
New York Times,
12 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The same software handle attacks, so even an unskilled operator can hit fast-evading targets.—
David Hambling,
Forbes.com,
26 Jan. 2026
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Meanwhile, the women faced with that pool of socially unskilled men have largely been overlooked.—
Faith Hill,
The Atlantic,
17 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Sometimes the subjects appear undressed or in lewd positions, with their faces and bodies hidden by black boxes, though there are occasional clips where a face is visible.—
Kerry Breen,
CBS News,
11 Feb. 2026
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The scandal erupted at the end of last year when the AI chatbot churned out a barrage of digitally undressed images of women and children in response to requests from users.—
Lianne Kolirin,
CNN Money,
26 Jan. 2026
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“Inartistic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inartistic. Accessed 28 Feb. 2026.
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