inelegant
Example Sentences
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Warsh called that measure a “rough swag” or inelegant approximation because it leaves in too many other one-off distortions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026
The victory was inelegant, but this wasn’t about style.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 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
In a single-star review, the Guardian's Benjamin Lee called the film "as dumb and schlocky as the worst of the genre, with lousy network TV effects, uninvolving action and unfunny and inelegant dialogue".
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2024
He supposed he’d have to learn to write in cursive if he became a scythe, but right now he’d be stuck with inelegant, sloppy printing.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
