Thesaurus / inelegant
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They’re opaque, with hundreds of obscure settings and features that—unless you love inelegant, browser-based interfaces—are often difficult to even access, let alone tweak.
BEST MESH WIFI: WRAP YOUR SPACE IN A COMFY BLANKET OF INTERNET COVERAGEEDMUND TORROCTOBER 13, 2021POPULAR-SCIENCENo, she didn’t put the pieces of tape on the outside of the pants — that would have been inelegant and unstylish — she put them unobtrusively on the inside of the pants, each covering one of the two holes.
GENE WEINGARTEN: DON’T JUST FIX THE PROBLEM. KLUGE IT.GENE WEINGARTENMAY 13, 2021WASHINGTON POSTAt 9, he taught inelegant programming languages like Visual Basic and COBOL to his sister — then a college sophomore.
THE SECRET WORLD OF CYBERSECURITYJOSHUA EFERIGHEMAY 12, 2021OZYHence, McConnell’s conundrum, which manifested in this week’s brazen and inelegant shut-up-but-give stance.
MITCH MCCONNELL TRIES TO HAVE IT BOTH WAYS ON CORPORATE CASHPHILIP ELLIOTTAPRIL 7, 2021TIMEThat leaves us with “pandemic,” an inelegant word that’s probably hard to rhyme.
WE TRIED TO PREDICT WHICH WORD AMANDA GORMAN WOULD SAY FIRST AT THE SUPER BOWLJOSH HERMSMEYERFEBRUARY 3, 2021FIVETHIRTYEIGHTDuffer is most inelegant (this from Julie in an assumption of stern reproach); I do not see wherever you picked up such a word.
THOSE DALE GIRLSFRANK WESTON CARRUTHThis inelegant jeu de theatre is severely ridiculed in the "Rehearsal."
THE WORKS OF JOHN DRYDEN, VOLUME 4 (OF 18)JOHN DRYDENDid you have a recollection at the time, at least—that is an inelegant question.
WARREN COMMISSION (11 OF 26): HEARINGS VOL. XI (OF 15)THE PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION ON THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDYThe use of tre for aller when followed by an infinitive is inelegant, though the construction is sometimes used by good writers.
CONTES FRANAISDOUGLAS LABAREE BUFFUMIt is easy to read in this illustration the parable of death destroying a fruitful vine, and as a picture it is not inelegant.
IN SEARCH OF GRAVESTONES OLD AND CURIOUSW.T. (WILLIAM THOMAS) VINCENTWORDS RELATED TO INELEGANT
- awkward
- backward
- barnyard
- boorish
- cheap
- cloddish
- clumsy
- coarse
- crass
- dirty
- earthy
- filthy
- foul
- grody
- gross
- ignorant
- ill-bred
- indecent
- indelicate
- inelegant
- insensible
- lewd
- loud
- loud-mouthed
- loutish
- lowbred
- oafish
- obscene
- raunchy
- raw
- rough
- rude
- savage
- smutty
- tacky
- tactless
- uncouth
- unenlightened
- ungainly
- unskillful
- barnyard
- boorish
- callous
- carnal
- cheap
- coarse
- corporeal
- crass
- fleshly
- foul
- ignorant
- improper
- impure
- in the gutter
- indecent
- indelicate
- inelegant
- insensitive
- lewd
- loudmouthed
- low
- low-minded
- lustful
- obscene
- offensive
- rank
- raunchy
- raw
- ribald
- rough
- rude
- scatological
- sensual
- sleazy
- smutty
- swinish
- tasteless
- ugly
- uncouth
- uncultured
- undiscriminating
- unfeeling
- unrefined
- unseemly
- unsophisticated
- abject
- base
- blue
- coarse
- common
- contemptible
- crass
- crumby
- dastardly
- degraded
- depraved
- despicable
- disgraceful
- dishonorable
- disreputable
- gross
- ignoble
- ill-bred
- inelegant
- mean
- menial
- miserable
- nasty
- obscene
- off-color
- offensive
- raw
- rough
- rude
- scrubby
- scruffy
- scurvy
- servile
- sordid
- unbecoming
- uncouth
- undignified
- unrefined
- unworthy
- vile
- woebegone
- woeful
- wretched
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