uncrafted en · ADJ
Etymology
From un- + crafted.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Not crafted.
The closer a poet is to the subject he elegizes, the more we expect him to respond in ways that aren’t “poetic” but it takes craft to make a poem seem uncrafted, and it takes words to show how short our words can fall.
2008 March 30, David Orr, “In Memoriam”, in New York Times: