unlifelike

Fedder gently lowered the dog onto it and her head bobbed in an ugly, unlifelike way.

The Dog 2010

He considered it “unlifelike,” ugly, and disturbing, and he discouraged Mother from hanging contemporary art in those areas of the house that he frequented.

To Be a Rockefeller Rockefeller, David 2002

He considered it “unlifelike,” ugly, and disturbing, and he discouraged Mother from hanging contemporary art in those areas of the house that he frequented.

To Be a Rockefeller Rockefeller, David 2002

Could one set the real person behind the frame and suddenly fix them for ever with one of those passing expressions on their faces, however natural it might have been at the moment, fixed for ever it is terrible, and most unlifelike.

The Practice and Science of Drawing Harold Speed

The whole exhibition is grubby, unlifelike and depressing.

As I Please 1945

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.

Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism Henry Seidel Canby 1919

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.

The Guest of Quesnay Booth Tarkington 1907

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.

An Introduction to the History of Western Europe James Harvey Robinson 1899

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.

An Introduction to the History of Western Europe James Harvey Robinson 1899

"No, Phyllie," he answered in a queer, unlifelike way.

Phyllis Maria Thompson Daviess 1898