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nonactorly

nonactorly adjective: not actorly; nonactorish.

Adjective

nonactorly (comparative more nonactorly, superlative most nonactorly)

  1. Not actorly; nonactorish.
    • Delivering those perspective-shaping lines in his own flat, Midwestern, nonactorly voice, occasionally standing among and even touching the audience members as he spoke, David Cromer personally cemented the connection between the play's reality and our reality, for we knew that as the director he...2014, Wendy Lesser, Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books, page 81
    • Apart from the little-known Caviezel — who has a wonderful, nonactorly woodcut of a face, suddenly breaking into a lopsided, backcountry grin — the most prominent are Sean Penn as the existentialist-without-portfolio Sergeant Welsh; Elias Koteas as the caring “battlefield lawyer" Captain Staros...2018 September 24, Richard T. Jameson, “Review: The Thin Red Line”, in Parallax View

Forms of nonactorly

comparativemore nonactorly
superlativemost nonactorly

Origin of nonactorly

From non- + actorly.

Questions about nonactorly

What does nonactorly mean?
Nonactorly means not actorly; nonactorish.
What part of speech is nonactorly?
Nonactorly is an adjective.

Words near nonactorly in the dictionary

  1. nonactivists
  2. nonactivities
  3. nonactivity
  4. nonactor
  5. nonactorish
  6. nonactorly
  7. nonactors
  8. nonacts
  9. nonactual
  10. nonactuality
  11. nonactualizable

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