Artless vs Currish - What's the difference?
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Having or displaying no guile, cunning, or deceit.
{{quote-Fanny Hill, part=5
, And why should I here suppress the delight I received from this amiable creature, in remarking each artless look, each motion of pure undissembled nature, betrayed by his wanton eyes}}
Free of artificiality; natural.
Lacking art, knowledge, or skill; uncultured and ignorant.
Poorly made or done; crude.
Pertaining to a cur or mongrel.
Ignoble, mean-spirited.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , II.4:
*, II.1.3:
*:God's vengeance, and all the plagues of Egypt come not upon us, since we are so currish one towards another, so respectless of God and our neighbours, and by our crying sins pull these miseries upon our own heads.
Artless is a related term of currish.
As adjectives the difference between artless and currish
is that artless is having or displaying no guile, cunning, or deceit while currish is pertaining to a cur or mongrel.artless
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- This pendant has artless charm.
Synonyms
* (Having no guile) See alsoAntonyms
* (Having no guile) See alsoAnagrams
*currish
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- more enfierced through his currish play, / Him sternely grypt, and haling to and fro, / To ouerthrow him strongly did assay […].