Adjective

(en adjective)

Having or displaying no guile, cunning, or deceit.

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Free of artificiality; natural.

This pendant has artless charm.

Lacking art, knowledge, or skill; uncultured and ignorant.

Poorly made or done; crude.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Not classical or pure.

uncivilized, uncultured

Like a barbarian, especially in sound; noisy, dissonant.

I did but prompt the age to quit their cloggs

By the known rules of antient libertie,

When strait a barbarous noise environs me

Of Owles and Cuckoes, Asses, Apes and Doggs - (1673)