inelegant
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They are spooked by embarrassing episodes in which CEOs’ inelegant internal remarks were secretly recorded and leaked online.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
Hockey was a bruising, inelegant sport played in the frozen tundra of Canada and the upper Midwest when Vachon was traded from the Montreal Canadiens to the Kings in the winter of 1971.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2026
Hence the event's rather convoluted and inelegant official title.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2025
Plenty of the twists leading up to the last episode are idiotic, including a few scenes relying on CGI distractingly inelegant enough to border on repulsive.
From Salon ● Feb. 13, 2025
Its blade was dark, inelegant; the textured skin that covered the hilt was nearly black, as though many hands had held it over the decades.
From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo
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