Pretentiously esthetic

Usage examples of arty.

Then Arty the Hawk put his fists in his pockets and hurried up the street.

Flight, a willie pete arty round will be impacting momentarily to the west of your run-in line.

C and C chopper orbiting between the target and that line of arty fire.

Perhaps our intelligence relied on the same methods to decide when and where to do extensive air or arty prep along the road.

Remember when arty white kids like Hemingway went to Paris to write a novel?

She wore a sort of arty get-up of multi-coloured shirt, skirt with fringed hem and pocket, low-heeled shoes, and wooden beads.

He found himself thinking that the whole arty get-up seemed oddly at variance with the way she was acting.

She was wearing her arty get-up, but had discarded the wooden beads in favour of a brooch consisting of a wooden letter M.

He could send me in among the Rotations and the stage crowd and the golfers and the arty types talking about statements of profiles rather than volumes and the musical.

It felt like one moment my father was what he had been forever a journalist hanging around training grounds hoping for a few exclusive grunts from twenty-year-old footballers on thirty grand a week, and the next he was a bestselling author, cocooned by six-figure royalty cheques, regularly appearing on the artier kind of talk shows, getting recognised in restaurants.

The art and architecture from that period have been taken up by our artier intellectuals.

East towards Covent Garden, where the street entertainment was a little artier, and the average burger was anything but cheap.

One of those fashionable young Japanese men that you sometimes see in the artier parts of London, haunting galleries and specialist record shops.

This was the arty lifestyle, mixing with the great and the rich, the playboys and the glittery set who had second homes in the south-west of Ireland.

With the exception of Desdemona, the Wainwrights lolled about in various arty poses, vying for space and attention.