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

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

From Slate • May 7, 2018

“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

“But how in time did they put it in here and who in thunder done it?”—Jones was apt to lose accuracy and gain a certain inelegance in his speech as his force of expression increased.

From The Auto Boys' Vacation by Braden, James A. (James Andrew)