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inelegance

[in-el-i-guhns] / ɪnˈɛl ɪ gəns /














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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

“Teach me how to not be afraid,” the clergyman, a composite figure of several acquaintances, asks Rustin, a line emblematic of the film’s occasional inelegance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2023

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

The expression "equal legs" is now being discarded on the score of inelegance.

From The Teaching of Geometry by David Eugene Smith


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