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

The sheer sublimity of this sequence — the eerie silence, the stillness and clarity of the image — stands in sharp contrast to the rest of the movie, which is framed with almost defiant inelegance.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2018

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

From Slate • May 7, 2018

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

“Poverty, inelegance, and poorness of diction,” will be no longer so “generally observed,” and even hearers of taste will cease to be offended.

From Hints on Extemporaneous Preaching by Ware, Henry