styleless

styleless
a) Lacking good style or any style at all.

It is not enough to say that style is a characteristic mode of expression, for then it would be almost impossible to speak of anything as styleless.

b) Lacking a style (stalk structure).

He was too thin, so that the styleless clothes hung poorly, and something in his coloring made her think that he ate the wrong foods.


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