Nonactorish

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Not actorish; natural; genuine.

    "Another good effort, the nonactorish playing of academy troublemakers in The Strange One, is nearly ruined by Gazzara's self-satisfied pantomime and three bit players who use banality to plug up the slapdash generalizing of Willingham's script."

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"Another good effort, the nonactorish playing of academy troublemakers in The Strange One, is nearly ruined by Gazzara's self-satisfied pantomime and three bit players who use banality to plug up the slapdash generalizing of Willingham's script."

Etymology

From non- + actorish.

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