Inornate

Mark E Smith has been the diarist of this era, screaming truth at us in the most honest and inornate fashion for all to hear. ❋ Unknown (1998)

The display of the morning was absent now; the nave was inornate, and sleepy. ❋ Lee, Laurie (1959)

The style is still inornate and direct, facts still speak rather than words, and there is nothing approaching the refined psychological dissection of characters and motives such as we find in Wolfram von Eschenbach and the other court writers. ❋ George Henry Needler (1914)

The secret of this is that the drama, when privily read, seems hard if not heavy in its diction, and to be so inornate, though by no means correspondingly simple, as to render any comparison between it and the dramatic work of Shakspere out of the question. ❋ Sharp, William, 1855-1905 (1897)

There the inornate beauty of its finish, the quiet abundance of its delicate woodwork, and the high spaciousness and continuity of its rooms for entertainment won admiration and fame. ❋ George Washington Cable (1884)

Latin, while faithfully representing the originals, were rendered into English that was ungracefully bald and inornate. ❋ George Otto Trevelyan (1883)

Macaulay, whose resignation was already in Lord Althorp's hands, made a speech which produced all the more effect as being inornate, and, at times, almost awkward. ❋ George Otto Trevelyan (1883)

The Sibyl, "speaking with inspired mouth, smileless, inornate, and unperfumed, pierces through centuries by the power of the god." ❋ Unknown (1849)

They wore every variety of dress, from that of the desperate thimble-rig bully, with velvet waistcoat, fancy neckerchief, gilt chains, and filagreed buttons, to that of the scrupulously inornate clergyman, than which nothing could be less liable to suspicion. ❋ Unknown (1845)

They wore every variety of dress, from that of the desperate thimble-rig bully, with velvet waistcoat, fancy neckerchief, gilt chains, and filigreed buttons, to that of the scrupulously inornate clergyman than which nothing could be less liable to suspicion. ❋ Unknown (1840)

This fragment is misquoted and misunderstood: for -- [Greek: gelastà] it should be [Greek: amuristà]. unperfumed, inornate lays, not redolent of art. ❋ Henry Nelson Coleridge (1820)