artsome

comparative more artsome · superlative most artsome

1. Characterised by art, the arts, or artistry.

   Recondite adventures in the insipid, the artsome, the equine, do not amuse my servant or myself.

   2007, Bonnie Kime Scott, Gender in Modernism

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   [...] it is laughatable ((absurd)) to think that the lower races can judge of artsome howths [qualities] that are too far above them for them to be able to see at all.

   2006, Malcolm Gillies, David Pear, Mark Carroll, Self-Portrait of Percy Grainger

   But Life will not yield up her more intimate secrets for eighteenpence an hour; and these earnest young ladies and artsome young men, when they have filled portfolios with such sordid life studies, know less about living humanity than they did before, …

   2015 (original 1900), George Bernard Shaw, When We Dead Awaken