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

Is it possible that the slogan’s ungrammatical inelegance is part of that rebuke?

From Slate • May 7, 2018

There is a kind of intentional inelegance, a stubborn awkwardness to Lynch’s work, something akin to outsider art, that keeps it from ever seeming glib,soulless or less than felt.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 30, 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

Then, too, they betray an occasional inelegance of expression like the following: "I find that I am stuck."

From Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)