inelegant
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ɪ adjective
not elegant; lacking in refinement, gracefulness, or good taste.
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| —adj | |
| 1. | lacking in elegance or refinement; unpolished or graceless |
| 2. | coarse or crude |
| in'elegance | |
| —n | |
| in'elegancy | |
| —n | |
| in'elegantly | |
| —adv | |
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Inelegant
is always a great word to know.
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| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
Example sentences
The screenplay is inelegant but lively, and the direction gives the material a wicked edge.
Our technique was inelegant, with comic decelerations and skids along the hot desert floor.
It is in vain to tell them that this dodging process is an inelegant provincialism.
Gauss never published the idea, perhaps because he found it inelegant.
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