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comparative more artistly · superlative most artistly
- rareBefitting an artist.
Artistly people and some writerlies and some law students slumming.
2004, Garrison Keillor, Homegrown Democrat: A Few Plain Thoughts from the Heart of America
comparative more artistly · superlative most artistly
- In an artistic fashion.
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!
1966, Charles Armitage Brown, Jack Stillinger, Letters, Harvard University Press, 1966
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artistly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/artistly
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