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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

Watching Ron live out this double-consciousness immediately triggered vivid memories of my own management of double consciousness — conducting that tricky dance that leaves no room for inelegance.

From The Guardian • Aug. 7, 2018

Is it possible that the slogan’s ungrammatical inelegance is part of that rebuke?

From Slate • May 7, 2018

There is a kind of intentional inelegance, a stubborn awkwardness to Lynch’s work, something akin to outsider art, that keeps it from ever seeming glib,soulless or less than felt.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 30, 2017

It was a room that shocked you with no inelegance, while it invited you by a sort of generally sympathetic upholstery and appointment.

From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar




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