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

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

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

But it is not their inelegance which rendered the poet necessary.

From The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem by Camões, Luís de