artistly
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Etymology edit
Adjective edit
artistly (comparative more artistly, superlative most artistly)
- (rare) Befitting an artist.
- 2004, Garrison Keillor, Homegrown Democrat: A Few Plain Thoughts from the Heart of America[1]:
- Artistly people and some writerlies and some law students slumming.
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artistly (comparative more artistly, superlative most artistly)
- In an artistic fashion.
- 1966, Charles Armitage Brown, Jack Stillinger, Letters, Harvard University Press, 1966[2]:
- There's Kirkup cocks his eye at her, not wickedly, but artistly, and declares she has the most beautiful eyes, forehead, nose, mouth, chin, cheeks, neck and all that, and such a figure, such a shape!