inelegance

 [in-el-i-guhns]  

in·el·e·gance

   [in-el-i-guhns]
noun
1.
the quality or state of being inelegant; lack of elegance.
2.
something that is inelegant or ungraceful.
Origin:
1720–30; ineleg(ant) + -ance
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Inelegance is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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World English Dictionary
inelegant (ɪnˈɛlɪɡənt)
 
—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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