all thumbs, bumbling, coarse, fumbling, homely, indecent, lumbering, rough, ugly as sin, uneuphonious, unpolished
Definitionadj. lacking in refinement or grace or good taste
Last update: June 23, 2015
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She made an inelegant gesture. [Please select]
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Dean caught his breath before answering her inelegant question. [Please select]
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[370-6] In the time of Shakespeare it was not considered inelegant English to use two forms of the comparative and superlative degrees. [Please select]
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She gives her nest the inelegant form of an obtuse cone. [Please select]
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The latter implies fully as great lack of knowledge of social usage, and, in addition, conduct which is primitive and perchance inelegant. [Please select]
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We subjoin the following "faithful but inelegant translation," which is given by M. [Please select]
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Even where there is no obscurity, the juxtaposition of the same word twice used in two senses is inelegant, _e. [Please select]
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An excessive regard for disused metaphor savours of pedantry: disregard is inelegant. [Please select]
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But it is useless to multiply these selections, which, viewed individually, are certainly absurd and inelegant. [Please select]
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With this livery and the righteous determination of earning two dollars a day, I began the inelegant task of 'pounding rocks no merry occupation, I assure you, for a hot summer's day on Manhattan Island.' [Please select]
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It is to this latter I shall address my remarks, rather than to the reproduction of the curious, the inelegant, or the deformed, such as an undesirable number of toes, which are impediments to utility. [Please select]
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