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
“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
The response is a risky endeavor, often marred by inelegance and blunder.
From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2014
Sam had been—you must excuse the inelegance of the phrase, but it was much in vogue in Daffodil's Delight—'on the loose' again for a couple of days.
From A Life's Secret A Novel by Wood, Mrs. Henry
