unslick

unslick

(ʌnˈslɪk)
adj
not slick
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MIA's politics, unwieldy and unslick though they may be, have often made her an easy target for tedious sneering in the press.
And sometimes the transformation is more suggested than explicit: A deliberately unslick, nonprofessional look gives Cornaro's shorts a certain perceptual "matteness"--the antithesis of HD.
Decidedly and deliberately unslick though, is 200MillionThousand the fifth album by Black Lips, a garage-rock four-piece from Atlanta, Georgia.
Otherwise, I'll pass it up just as quickly as I turned my back on the Fusion, though that also had something to do with a cheap interior, seriously unslick gearbox, and the little problem of two too many doors.
The directors' light, uncalculated touch with the material is echoed in the modest production's fresh, appealingly unslick feel.
For instance, other reporters variously interpreted Paul Tsongas' poll surge last winter as a mandate for deficit reduction, voter attraction to unslick politicians, or an expression of dissatisfaction with other candidates.
Cohen's direction is all energetic, no-nonsense efficiency, backed up by rough-and-ready, determinedly unslick tech contributions.
Her productions remain, thank God, far from monotonous artiness, because Bag retains television's awkwardness, banality, static, and endearing ineptitudes, its jaw-clenching my-spinal-cord-is-a-chalkboard-and-fingernails-are-running-down-it uncanniness - necessary impurities until now only seen on the unslick channels of cable-access talk shows, certain ads, and bits of MTV.