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
“Poverty, inelegance, and poorness of diction,” will be no longer so “generally observed,” and even hearers of taste will cease to be offended.
From Hints on Extemporaneous Preaching by Ware, Henry
