unelaborate

Example Sentences

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She half turned, scanning me indifferently, and went on with her unelaborate music.

From San Crist?bal de la Habana by Hergesheimer, Joseph

His writings, few and unelaborate as they are, have won admiring praise from the judges whose verdict is fame.

From The Friendships of Women by Alger, William Rounseville

I think art would have ceased to have the slightest interest for any of us had the object been only to make a representation, elaborate or unelaborate, of a fact in nature.

From Holman Hunt Masterpieces in Colour by Coleridge, Mary E.

His humour is unelaborate, he goes straight to the fact, and, having expressed its extraordinary and fantastic characteristics, he does not linger to develop his drawing into a decorative scheme.

From English Book-Illustration of To-day Appreciations of the Work of Living English Illustrators With Lists of Their Books by Sketchley, Rose Esther Dorothea

This at once had the elements of a lie and the unelaborate truth; he couldn't see how his curiosity applied to him, and yet he was intent on its solving.

From Cytherea by Hergesheimer, Joseph