nontechnique

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

non- +‎ technique

Noun[edit]

nontechnique (uncountable)

  1. (art) Lack of technique
    • 1988 January 8, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “10 From '87”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
      Spaceballs and Amazon Women on the Moon were unwieldy messes, but they both had their moments of brilliance: the characters watching the videocassette of Spaceballs in the midst of Spaceballs, as well as some of Mel Brooks's ethnic humor and the flaunting of his nontechnique (qualities that seem to go together, as they do in Richard Marin's Born in East L.A.) [] .