Adjective : a lifelike portrait. From Dictionary.com.
Fedder gently lowered the dog onto it and her head bobbed in an ugly, unlifelike way. From Wordnik.com. [The Dog] Reference
He considered it “unlifelike,” ugly, and disturbing, and he discouraged Mother from hanging contemporary art in those areas of the house that he frequented. From Wordnik.com. [To Be a Rockefeller] Reference
The whole exhibition is grubby, unlifelike and depressing. From Wordnik.com. [As I Please] Reference
Yet we can't accuse his attenuated figures of being entirely unlifelike. From Wordnik.com. [Slate Magazine] Reference
Before his time the frescoes, like the illuminations in the manuscripts of which we have spoken in a previous chapter, were exceedingly stiff and unlifelike. From Wordnik.com. [An Introduction to the History of Western Europe] Reference
While, compared with later sculpture, they seem somewhat stiff and unlifelike, they harmonize wonderfully with the whole building, and the best of them are full of charm and dignity. From Wordnik.com. [An Introduction to the History of Western Europe] Reference
The novelist or poet is a difficult person for stage treatment; the pictures of the dramatist in the theatre are curiously unlifelike -- as unlifelike as the theatrical managers on the stage. From Wordnik.com. [Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette"] Reference
It was a usual enough dream, wandering and unlifelike, not worth the telling; and I had been thinking so constantly of Mrs. Harman that there was nothing extraordinary in her worthless ex-husband's being part of it. From Wordnik.com. [The Guest of Quesnay] Reference
The art of painting (almost always in miniature) was considerably advanced, the figures being well drawn, in rather stiff but not unlifelike attitudes, though perspective is very imperfectly understood, and hardly ever attempted. From Wordnik.com. [Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain] Reference
She also relieves her pent-up idealism in plays or books -- in high-wrought, "strong" novels, not in adventures in society such as the kitchen admires, but in stories with violent moral and emotional crises, whose characters, no matter how unlifelike, have "strong" thoughts, and make vital decisions; succeed or fail significantly. From Wordnik.com. [Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism] Reference
If such unlifelike lines kept power to stir. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Cottage] Reference
"Well, Mr. Hill; well, thank you," answered John, but he kept his stern, absent demeanour, as if he could not, or would not, shake off the spell that had come over him, which made him look like a cold, unfaithful, unlifelike copy of himself. From Wordnik.com. [The Late Miss Hollingford] Reference
It is so, first, because it has not got the utterly superfluous characters of the villain Edmund and unlifelike Gloucester and Edgar, who only distract one's attention; secondly because it has not got the completely false "effects" of Lear running about the heath, his conversations with the fool, and all these impossible disguises, failures to recognize, and accumulated deaths; and, above all, because in this drama there is the simple, natural, and deeply touching character of Leir and the yet more touching and clearly defined character of Cordelia, both absent in Shakespeare. From Wordnik.com. [Tolstoy on Shakespeare A Critical Essay on Shakespeare] Reference
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