artistly

artist +‎ -ly

artistly (comparative more artistly, superlative most artistly)

1. (rare) Befitting an artist.
   • 2004, Garrison Keillor, Homegrown Democrat: A Few Plain Thoughts from the Heart of America‎:

     Artistly people and some writerlies and some law students slumming.

artistly (comparative more artistly, superlative most artistly)

1. In an artistic fashion.
   • 1966, Charles Armitage Brown, Jack Stillinger, Letters, Harvard University Press, 1966‎:

     There's Kirkup cocks his eye at her, not wickedly, but artistly, and declares she has the most beautiful eyes, forehead, nose, mouth, chin, cheeks, neck and all that, and such a figure, such a shape!

• straitly