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
To transmute such willful inelegance into high art would be a miracle indeed.
From New York Times • Jan. 22, 2024
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
He was very much disturbed by what he regarded as inelegance, and picturesque phrases or words were likely to give way to more commonplace ones.
From Noah Webster American Men of Letters by Scudder, Horace E.
