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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

“It was OK to show the inelegance of the juggle … having those cameras around when you’re putting your kids to bed at night.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2017

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

Yet the girl and dog made rather a pretty picture, despite the inelegance of Vixen's attitude.

From Vixen, Volume I. by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon


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