Definitions
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- adjective Not
aesthetic .
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- adjective violating aesthetic canons or requirements; deficient in tastefulness or beauty
Etymologies
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Examples
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Less forgivable than the unaesthetic are the mercenary.
The Golden Poppy 2010
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I was swiftly scolded for my tone: “unbusinesslike, unmannerly, and just plain unaesthetic.”
Scents & Sensibility 2007
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I was swiftly scolded for my tone: “unbusinesslike, unmannerly, and just plain unaesthetic.”
Scents & Sensibility 2007
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Less forgivable than the unaesthetic are the mercenary.
The Golden Poppy 1910
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They have been called the unaesthetic, as well as the lower, senses; but the propriety of these epithets, which is undeniable, is due not to any intrinsic sensuality or baseness of these senses, but to the function which they happen to have in our experience.
The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory George Santayana 1907
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Less forgivable than the unaesthetic are the mercenary.
Revolution, and Other Essays Jack London 1896
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The compound’s architectural theme could best be described as unaesthetic industrial.
Deception Plan Patrick A. Davis 2006
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Pondering the nature of addiction, which he's flirted with and which now has Midge firmly in its icy grip, seeing its rather unaesthetic manifestation before him, he writes about tobacco, a product that "never improves, causes illness, and makes people unhappy."
William Bradley: Mad Men : Nothing Like a Little Lemonade to Rinse the Smoke From One's Eyes William Bradley 2010
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Pondering the nature of addiction, which he's flirted with and which now has Midge firmly in its icy grip, seeing its rather unaesthetic manifestation before him, he writes about tobacco, a product that "never improves, causes illness, and makes people unhappy."
William Bradley: Mad Men : Nothing Like a Little Lemonade to Rinse the Smoke From One's Eyes William Bradley 2010
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But like I said, if you look at how we allocate representation — in a zero sum dynamic dominated by elected officials choosing who gets to vote for ‘em — and the only thing that troubles you is how unaesthetic the lines are, or whether a Shays can keep getting re-elected, well …. ’nuff said.
Matthew Yglesias » Little Evidence to Support Gerrymandering-Polarization Link 2009
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