artily

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adverb

In an arty fashion.

Scrabble 9

Meanings

adverbartily (comparative more artily, superlative most artily)

comparative more artily · superlative most artily

  1. rareIn an arty fashion.

    Attracts an indie, mostly Thai crowd, to drink cocktails (B120) and 3.5-litre towers of draft Heineken (B500) at its wrought-iron tables and artily mismatched furniture.

    2010, Lucy Ridout, The Rough Guide to Bangkok
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    Of course, there are better examples of this artily conscious cult of the naïve: we may mention the Seven Pieces (24) which Jimmy Giuffre, a musically educated white jazz composer, wrote for himself on clarinet or sax, with J. Hall on guitar and Red Mitchell on bass.

    1975, Wilfrid Mellers, Music in a New Found Land: Themes and Developments in the History of American Music, page 362

    He stood in front of her wearing an artily ironic nylon leopard-skin print vest bought from the kind of shops where Marcia had rebelliously shopped in high school when she'd been 'going native' as Evie put it.

    2013, Emma van der Vliet, Thirty Second World

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