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- adjective
Self-important orself-indulgent , especially when describing anartistic project.
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Examples
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Oh, and we may also need to take into account those arty-farty designers using Macs.
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In the old Soviet days, the Samizdat used to talk of ‘kitsch’ (not the arty-farty kind), a sort of gloying jelly you had to fumble with in dealing, day-to-day with the vile nomenclature foisting its mix of ludicrous ideology, lying targets and statistics, propaganda and vicious impersonal control on all and sundry.
New Financial Year – Now We Can Arrest Again « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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Less historical than hysterical, "The Untitled Kartik Krishnan Project" is a movie-within-a-movie shot in frequently abstract black-and-white — "arty-farty," as one character describes her cinematic preference — about a lonely office worker's effort to make a short film with the help of a more established director (the film's actual director, Srinivas Sunderrajan).
Kids Take Over the School Steve Dollar 2010
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The ones they're keeping are the ones that benefit business, while cutting the arty-farty ones that cost very little and arguably earn money.
Armando Iannucci: 'Now is not the time for a crap opposition' Stuart Jeffries 2010
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Triple Ecstacy is a remarkable example of an arty-farty porno film that actually succeeds in the arty part.
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You're right, it won't be over until the fat lady sings, but even that won't satisfy the liberal arty-farty literati.
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You're right, it won't be over until the fat lady sings, but even that won't satisfy the liberal arty-farty literati.
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We are talking about the sinister path here, not some “white light” arty-farty mumbo-jumbo.
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And we've all been agonizing for the past week about whether or not a weird political mutation called Nick Griffin is really Public Enemy Number One, having been ordained as such by the multi-culti, metrosexual, arty-farty literati and Auntie Beeb's Lord High Inquisitor David Dumblebollocks, because Griffin insists that a tribe known as the English still actually exists in England and is worthy of representation in Parliament.
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009
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If not because it sounds very arty-farty, then because out of slight embarrassment that I'm "only" a border guard.
Across the Border James Gurney 2009
yarb commented on the word arty-farty
Ten dozen brash unfinished cheap
concrete and warped pine cantilevered lumps
of arty-farty blocks and knick-knack shops
await completion...
- Peter Reading, Travelogue, from Nothing for Anyone, 1977
June 26, 2008
sionnach commented on the word arty-farty
I think he must mean artsy-fartsy.
yarb: with just a little extra effort you could be reading Reading in Reading.
June 26, 2008
dontcry commented on the word arty-farty
Yes, we say artsy-fartsy too, you know, when we're feeling all hoity-toity.
June 26, 2008
yarb commented on the word arty-farty
It was arty-farty when I were a lad. In fact artsy-fartsy doesn't sound right to me.
I have in fact spent a short time reading Reading in Reading - at Reading railway station in 1997, to be precise.
June 26, 2008