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
“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
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
The inelegance and tautology of this definition I pass by; but why should he profane the names of Milton and Shakespeare to support such monstrous nonsense?
From Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works by Anonymous
