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
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
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
Thy prose is admirable, better than acute, idiomatical, off-hand, conversational, without inelegance, fresh as the laugh on the young cheek, and full of brain.
From Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Auerbach, Berthold
