inelegance
Example Sentences
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Once a showcase of American power, the Oval Office has now become a shrine to inelegance.
From Salon ● Jan. 4, 2026
“It was OK to show the inelegance of the juggle … having those cameras around when you’re putting your kids to bed at night.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2017
Her recent building for St Anthony’s college in Oxford, , meanwhile, smashes into its historic neighbour with the same thuggish inelegance as her Serpentine Sackler Centre does in London.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 31, 2016
I find the poem affecting; I call it a good poem; but the writing has quite a bit of Hardy’s characteristic awkwardness and inelegance.
From Slate ● Feb. 12, 2013
Sam had been—you must excuse the inelegance of the phrase, but it was much in vogue in Daffodil's Delight—'on the loose' again for a couple of days.
From A Life's Secret A Novel by Mrs. Henry Wood
