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Synonyms for inelegance


Grammar : Noun
Spell : in-el-i-guh ns
Phonetic Transcription : ɪnˈɛl ɪ gəns

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Définition of inelegance

  • As in impropriety : noun bad taste, mistake
  • As in bad form : noun bad style
  • As in artlessness : noun unskillfulness
  • As in improperness : noun impropriety
  • As in impudency : noun impudence
  • As in inappropriateness : noun impropriety
  • As in indecorum : noun impropriety
  • As in indelicacy : noun impropriety
  • As in unbecomingness : noun impropriety
  • As in unfitness : noun impropriety
  • As in unseemliness : noun impropriety
  • As in unsuitability : noun impropriety
  • As in unsuitableness : noun impropriety
Example sentences :
  • Charlie seemed rather pleased than otherwise at my inelegance.
  • Extract from : « The Love Affairs of an Old Maid » by Lilian Bell
  • Yet Aunt Maude's plumpness was not the plumpness of inelegance.
  • Extract from : « Mistress Anne » by Temple Bailey
  • The last four lines unite incorrectness, tameness, and inelegance with remarkable and fatal facility.
  • Extract from : « The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 » by Various
  • The inelegance of the appellation perhaps explains why the bird has been permitted to retain it for quite a long while unchanged.
  • Extract from : « Birds of the Indian Hills » by Douglas Dewar
  • Therefore in the machine two cane stilts were indispensable, although their inelegance greatly disturbed the inventor.
  • Extract from : « The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci » by Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky
  • The expression "equal legs" is now being discarded on the score of inelegance.
  • Extract from : « The Teaching of Geometry » by David Eugene Smith
  • Inelegance, in-el′e-gans, n. want of elegance: want of beauty or polish—also Inel′egancy.
  • Extract from : « Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) » by Various
  • And as long as meanings are clear, good Logic is compatible with false concords and inelegance of style.
  • Extract from : « Logic » by Carveth Read
  • Pray excuse the inelegance of this scrawl, and believe me yours in haste, William D. Pitman.'
  • Extract from : « The Wrong Box » by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne
  • Maurice was struck for a moment, but soon saw that the remark was innocent of any inelegance of speech.
  • Extract from : « The Puppet Crown » by Harold MacGrath

Antonyms for inelegance

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