styleless

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styleless

(ˈstaɪllɪs)
adj
lacking style
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
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Adj.1.styleless - lacking in style or elegancestyleless - lacking in style or elegance; "a styleless way of dressing"; "expensive but styleless country tweeds"; "wearing unstylish clothes"
unstylish
stylish, fashionable - having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress; "a little less posh but every bit as stylish as Lord Peter Wimsey"; "the stylish resort of Gstadd"
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In the other corner, we have a styleless and departicularized "non-poetry" that aims not to create objects of aesthetic experience but to confer value--sometimes through the medium of poetry--on "persons" in the abstract.
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