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inelegance::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | quality |
| Has types | boorishness, clumsiness, coarseness, commonness, crudeness, dowdiness, drabness, gracelessness, grossness, homeliness, inflation, manginess, ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, puffiness, raunch, roughness, seediness, shabbiness, sleaziness, splashiness, stiffness, tastelessness, tweediness, uncouthness, vulgarism, awkwardness, vulgarity |
| Derivation | inelegant |
Examples of inelegance
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There is, of course, an easy way to circumvent all the inelegance and indignation.
From the abcnews.go.com
Inserting a silicon chip into the human brain involves a certain irreducible inelegance of scale.
From the time.com
He had no talent for wealth, and knew how to be poor without the least hint of squalor or inelegance.
From the theatlantic.com
What makes it racially invidious is not the underlying argument or the rhetorical inelegance with which Santorum makes it.
From the online.wsj.com
So I'm not going to play down that inelegance.
From the telegraph.co.uk
The Bush budget sank of its own cynical inelegance.
From the time.com
The movie is full of the tackiness, inelegance and intentional lack of sophistication that traditionally govern men at their most relaxed and unguarded.
From the washingtonpost.com
If it weren't for the inelegance of the responses, I'd say they are trying to revive interest in their flagging careers with a very public dust-up.
From the guardian.co.uk
All around me swirled other visitors, most dressed in jeans and T-shirts, some even unashamedly sporting that contemporary badge of sartorial inelegance, the water bottle.
From the theatlantic.com
- The quality of lacking refinement and good taste
- (inelegantly) without elegance
- The state or quality of being inelegant
- (inelegant) Not elegant; not exhibiting neatness, refinement, or precision
