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
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
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.
