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

“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

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

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