inelegant
Example Sentences
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The necessary but perhaps inelegant design earned the Space Shuttle its own nickname: the “flying brick.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2026
The clank of this supposed breakthrough idea is as inelegant as the meandering storytelling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025
Hence the event's rather convoluted and inelegant official title.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2025
Plenty of the twists leading up to the last episode are idiotic, including a few scenes relying on CGI distractingly inelegant enough to border on repulsive.
From Salon ● Feb. 13, 2025
Then she flies past the rows of gangly bird of paradise, past the pawpaw tree with ripening fruit, and loses a sandal taking the three front steps in an inelegant leap.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
