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

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

From New York Times • Jan. 22, 2024

“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.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 3, 2023

Is it possible that the slogan’s ungrammatical inelegance is part of that rebuke?

From Slate • May 7, 2018

They sat down, she with her habitual inelegance, her legs wide apart, her thick garden boots firmly planted on the gravel.

From The Daughter Pays by Reynolds, Mrs. Baillie