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
Watching Ron live out this double-consciousness immediately triggered vivid memories of my own management of double consciousness — conducting that tricky dance that leaves no room for inelegance.
From The Guardian • Aug. 7, 2018
Is it possible that the slogan’s ungrammatical inelegance is part of that rebuke?
From Slate • May 7, 2018
The expression "equal legs" is now being discarded on the score of inelegance.
From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene
