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unrhetorical
adjective
uk /ˌʌn.rɪˈtɒr.ɪ.kəl/ us /ˌʌn.rɪˈtɔːr.ɪ.kəl/
Unrhetorical speech or writing is clear and simple, not rhetorical(= intended to seem important or to influence):
There is a helpful and unrhetorical commentary accompanied by maps and other illustrations.
This book, while characteristically cool, modest and unrhetorical, makes nevertheless a bold claim.
Unidealized, unrhetorical and yet tenderly sympathetic, his portraits of women convey an air of truth.
Lee's voice, in contrast, is resolutely unrhetorical.
His literal, unrhetorical manner may lack a sense of edginess for some audiences.
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