Best way to “negate” an instanceof

Question

I was thinking if there exists a better/nicer way to negate an instanceof in Java. Actually, I'm doing something like:

if(!(str instanceof String)) { /* do Something */ }

But I think that a "beautiful" syntax to do this should exist.

Does anyone know if it exists, and how the syntax look like?

 By beautiful, I might say something like this:

if(str !instanceof String) { /* do Something */ } // compilation fails

Answer 1

No, there's no better method; yours is official.