C. Lucilius invented satire, by first imparting a definite purpose to an inartistic kind of metrical composition, in which miscellaneous topics had been treated in accordance with the occasional mood or interests of the writer.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
It is a grace of style much abused by inartistic singers.
"Style in Singing"
W. E. Haslam
And if they must needs go further, and erect a more durable pile, it must still be of materials crude, inartistic, such as the earth itself affords, of unhewn stone.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus"
G. A. Chadwick