"nonstyle" meaning in English

See nonstyle in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: nonstyles [plural]
Etymology: From non- + style. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|non|style}} non- + style Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} nonstyle (countable and uncountable, plural nonstyles)
  1. That which is not a style; lack of style. Tags: countable, uncountable

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1995, Lilian R. Furst, All Is True: The Claims and Strategies of Realist Fiction, page 147:",
          "text": "Despite the findings of recent critics, who have taken issue with the word, disputing its appropriateness to realism, this perception of the characteristic style of realism as a nonstyle has nevertheless been hard to dislodge.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, Amelia Jones, Andrew Stephenson, Performing the body/performing the text, page 144:",
          "text": "Dada and Surrealism and other nonstyles",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, John Hargraves, Music in the works of Broch, Mann, and Kafka, page 52:",
          "text": "His nonstyle is painfully evident when he is less than inspired: the \"Faust\" overture: empty bombast; the Wesendonck-Lieder: empty sentimentality.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Montgomery Van Wart, Leadership in Public Organizations: An Introduction, page 274:",
          "text": "A laissez-faire style, characterized by passive indifference about the task and subordinates, is essentially a nonstyle.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Zarena Aslami, The Dream Life of Citizens, page 141:",
          "text": "The novel reveals its contradictory theory of representation when the narrator, describing the young Evadne's notebook, praises its style as a nonstyle[…]",
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          "type": "quote"
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          "ref": "2002, John Hargraves, Music in the works of Broch, Mann, and Kafka, page 52:",
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          "type": "quote"
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          "ref": "2008, Montgomery Van Wart, Leadership in Public Organizations: An Introduction, page 274:",
          "text": "A laissez-faire style, characterized by passive indifference about the task and subordinates, is essentially a nonstyle.",
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