Artless 1100 Words You Need Week 42 Day 3

Artless 1100 Words You Need Week 42 Day 3

Artless 1100 Words You Need Week 42 Day 3

/ˈɑːt.ləs/ (adj)

simple and honest, without guile or pretension, ingenuous, naïve, innocent, candid, childlike, guileless, sincere, natural, unsophisticated

In David McDuff’s 1993 version we read: ‘The greater the stupidity, the greater the clarity. Stupidity is brief and guileless, while wit equivocates and hides. Wit is a scoundrel, while stupidity is honest and sincere.’ And again, in Constance Garnett’s much older version: ‘The stupider one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence wriggles and hides itself. Intelligence is a knave, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.’

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/

Antonym: disingenuous

Noun: artlessness

Adverb: artlessly