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Words to describe people

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ambivalent
trencherman
stridulant
mondain
artless

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Words described using their anagrams

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PRONUNCIATION:

(ART-les)

MEANING:

adjective:
1. Without guile; sincere; simple.
2. Free of artificiality.
3. Lacking art or skill.

ETYMOLOGY:

From art, from Latin ars (art) + less, from Old English leas (without). Earliest documented use: 1586.

USAGE:

“District Judge Shawn Ho said both parties were like ‘chalk and cheese’ -- the pastor being ‘polished and glib’ and Mr Tay ‘sincere, straightforward, and artless’.”
Elena Chong; Pastor Jailed Two Weeks for Road Rage; The Straits Times (Singapore); Jul 2, 2016.

See more usage examples of artless in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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