inelegance

To transmute such willful inelegance into high art would be a miracle indeed.

“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.

Of pride, indeed, there was, perhaps, scarcely enough; his indifference to a confusion of rank, bordered too much on inelegance of mind.

At this time last October, LeBron James was about to insinuate himself, with uncharacteristic inelegance, into the NBA’s China controversy.

But this time he committed the twin sins of inelegance and indiscretion.