artlessness

Example Sentences

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Artlessness and simplicity triumphed, where the deepest design would have /ailed.

From Gryll Grange by Peacock, Thomas Love

Artlessness nowadays must be the result of the most exquisitely finished art; if not, it is apt to be insipid, if not positively squalid and fusty.

From Victorian Songs Lyrics of the Affections and Nature by Garrett, Edmund Henry

Artlessness -- N. artlessness &c. adj.; nature, simplicity; innocence &c.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark

Artlessness will never do in love matters; and that girl is born a simpleton who has it either by nature or affectation.

From Lady Susan by Austen, Jane

The most rus� little rogue in the whole kingdom, he knows how to make himself look like a perfect reproduction of Sir Joshua Reynolds's Artlessness or Infancy.

From A House-Party Don Gesualdo and A Rainy June by Ouida