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
“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
I find the poem affecting; I call it a good poem; but the writing has quite a bit of Hardy’s characteristic awkwardness and inelegance.
From Slate • Feb. 12, 2013
To these had been added here and there pieces of many different styles and shades of modern inelegance.
From One Woman's Life by Herrick, Robert
