inelegant
Example Sentences
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The clank of this supposed breakthrough idea is as inelegant as the meandering storytelling.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 11, 2025
Shock can be great even when done for shock’s sake, but when it’s clumsily smashed against an otherwise serious story, both elements are weakened by the awkward, inelegant force at which they collide.
From Salon • Aug. 8, 2025
Hence the event's rather convoluted and inelegant official title.
From BBC • Jun. 10, 2025
It’s just so inelegant, a feeling I so rarely get from my Apple devices.
From Slate • Jun. 20, 2023
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
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.