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

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

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

Vassie only saw the inelegance, for he was her brother, but to Phoebe his very scorn of dainty ways made him more god-like because more man-like.

From Secret Bread by Jesse, F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson)