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

The sheer sublimity of this sequence — the eerie silence, the stillness and clarity of the image — stands in sharp contrast to the rest of the movie, which is framed with almost defiant inelegance.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2018

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

From Slate • May 7, 2018

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

“But how in time did they put it in here and who in thunder done it?”—Jones was apt to lose accuracy and gain a certain inelegance in his speech as his force of expression increased.

From The Auto Boys' Vacation by Braden, James A. (James Andrew)