Definition of "inartistic" [inartistic]

• Not conforming to the principles or criteria of art: "Never would she resort to the inartistic expedient of modifying her work to suit the popular taste” ( Edith Wharton). (adjective)
• Lacking taste or interest in art. (adjective)

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• "Whether they ought to be called inartistic or not, we will leave time to decide, if it has not done so already; the Russian and other Slavonic composers, who are now coming more and more to the front, seem to be little in doubt as to their legitimacy."
• "Whatever their source, there was, either in the composition itself or in his mode of playing, not a little of the inartistic, that is, the lawless."
• "Every personal soul, however "inartistic," is an artist in this sense; and every personal life thus considered is an effective or ineffective "work of art.""