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.
So is slumgullion. Does it mean:
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
Example sentences
In his fantasies, they answer in the same inelegant jargon, having become grotesque echoes of himself.
But he recognises that controls on inflows, though inelegant, may be necessary at times.
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.
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