Artsy Fartsy

Word ARTSY FARTSY
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Definitions and meanings of "Artsy Fartsy"

What do we mean by artsy fartsy?

Pretentiously or affectedly artistic. adjective

A frivolous or dismissive description of someone or something that is artistic or pretentiously artistic. adjective

Pretentiously artistic.

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The word "artsy-fartsy" in example sentences

Wanted to tell you about my second “artsy-fartsy” date, though actually I guess it was the first since the first wasn't really a “date” so the second would be the first, really. ❋ Con Chapman (2011)

"Analytic" is of course a nice term to be used whenever it's necessary to distinguish between mere emotional and instinctual artists and real thinkers -- the intellectually rigorous (and properly credentialed) "scholars" who can cut through all the artsy-fartsy rigamarole favored by the "creative" types and let us know what all cultural activites are finally really about. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Then, the accompanying artsy-fartsy video caught fire, receiving endless airplay on MTV and VH1. ❋ Steve Dennis (2011)

I personally don't plan on missing a single red carpet that she graces or destroys, not one episode or premiere party for HBO's Boardwalk Empire, or any cheesy, self-produced, artsy-fartsy sex tape that she releases did I mention there's a faux-sex tape? ❋ Malcolm Harris (2011)

It's perfectly ok with me if Jonathan Yardley has philistine tastes in fiction, but one would swear that he has been given prominence in the Washington Post for all these years because he represents the similar philistine tastes of most of those who write for and edit American newspapers, and can be counted on to give those artsy-fartsy novelists (the "literati" more generally) a good smack in the face every once in a while. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But they show artsy-fartsy movies and it's very close to a good bookstore. ❋ Beth Spotswood (2011)

Admittedly, political avoidance of the arts is now an established, cross-party tradition, following New Labour's brutish assumption that, as Chris Smith told the Guardian's Charlotte Higgins, culture was "too artsy-fartsy" for the British public to deal with. ❋ Unknown (2011)

"Are you really sure she'd want to be in that kind of uncreative environment for four years?" one similarly artsy-fartsy friend asked me, when I told her about Zoë's interest in Brooklyn Tech. ❋ Alison Craiglow Hockenberry (2011)

I was considered the token artsy-fartsy hippie dude. ❋ Steve Dollar (2011)

My mother was kind of artsy-fartsy—read poetry, put on all the Christmas pageants, was extremely well read. ❋ Barry Mazor (2011)

The collection took an artsy-fartsy, oopsie-daisy turn about midway through the show when seams began to undulate and dresses began to resemble oversize works of origami sculpture. ❋ Robin Givhan (2010)

He doesn't need artsy-fartsy video screens, because he's so damn entertaining, he's the only thing you want to see. ❋ Unknown (2010)

As Hattie and I drive homeward, we debate the relative differences of garden tours in her artsy-fartsy, celebrating-diversity neighborhood, where the gardeners are the sole workers and designers, and those in this neighborhood. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Carl was the first boy to be nice to Fay, who was a little too artsy-fartsy for the other guys. ❋ Mark Kerstetter (2010)

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