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artlessly

ADVERB
crudely
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Kiarostami doesn’t just drop a camera artlessly in the wilderness.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 5, 2019

In artlessly blatant ways — no costumes, props or makeup — he attempted to alter its surfaces, change its gender, cancel it out.

From New York Times Jun. 30, 2016

He composes his own speeches, using blunt, stripped-down language to artlessly hammer at his themes.

From Slate Apr. 28, 2016

The stool, Panthers administrators believe, isn’t just a chair with wheels and legs padded artlessly with medical tape and foam rubber.

From Washington Post Mar. 15, 2016

"It was a gentleman that picked up my umbrella," began Miss M'Evoy artlessly.

From In Mr. Knox's Country by Martin Ross




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