RICHARDSON: I was called inelegant recently, maybe that's adequate. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 21, 2007] Reference
The profile speaks here and there of Roberts '"inelegant" style. From Wordnik.com. [Joanne Rendell: Romancing the Academy] Reference
He compares "inelegant" men to decimals as though being gauche makes them less than whole, "not quite zeros and not altogether numerals.". From Wordnik.com. [Caroline Hagood: Blast From the Past: Honoré de Balzac's New English Release, Treatise on Elegant Living] Reference
Ato Kwamena Dadzie: GT & Vodafone - The 'inelegant' probe. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Business News] Reference
That any plug-in is kind of inelegant and the wrong way to be going about this. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Web 2.0] Reference
But he would rather give 4 non-working solutions rather than the working, "inelegant" solution. From Wordnik.com. [Planet MYOSS] Reference
Today, he finds that technique rather "inelegant" and spends his time fashioning custom tools to exploit weaknesses in specific locks. From Wordnik.com. [doggdot.us] Reference
Then one of his trusted associates - more trusted than he could imagine - took him aside and told him he was "inelegant" and frenetic. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
The pattern is inelegant, and the sound-holes too close. From Wordnik.com. [The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators] Reference
"That lets me out," was Jerry's relieved, inelegant comment to. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore] Reference
"Have I referred, Sir," said I, "to the inelegant coin you name?". From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861] Reference
And there's another to be singled out, though it may seem inelegant. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
To say the least, this is inelegant, and the affectations proceed. From Wordnik.com. [Early Reviews of English Poets] Reference
I know that sounds very inelegant, but it expresses my idea perfectly. From Wordnik.com. [Prudence Says So] Reference
To do so is both inelegant and unfashionable, and savors of the school-room. From Wordnik.com. [Manners and Social Usages] Reference
It was a most inelegant attitude, and peculiarly exasperating to Mrs. Caldwell. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
There was a dialogue, there were negotiations, there were inelegant compromises. From Wordnik.com. [Bubba Is Back] Reference
He made a few Violins, large Stradivarius form, sound-holes straight and inelegant. From Wordnik.com. [The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators] Reference
His style is neat, yet animated; concise, yet clear; familiar, yet seldom inelegant. From Wordnik.com. [A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements] Reference
An excessive regard for disused metaphor savours of pedantry: disregard is inelegant. From Wordnik.com. [How to Write Clearly Rules and Exercises on English Composition] Reference
A kluge (rhymes with "huge") is defined as a clumsy or inelegant solution to a problem. From Wordnik.com. [Faulty Powers] Reference
Morose as I am in judging of poetry, I could find nothing inelegant in the whole piece. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century] Reference
This sentence, though rendered inelegant by a bad choice of words, is strictly grammatical. From Wordnik.com. [English Grammar in Familiar Lectures] Reference
To be on the verge of war, without actually fighting one, may be sound, if inelegant, policy. From Wordnik.com. [Deja Vu All Over Again] Reference
She found a language crude and inelegant, manners coarse and licentious, morals dissolute and vicious. From Wordnik.com. [The Women of the French Salons] Reference
Sturdy black and hairy scamps the Irish -- never German boor so inelegant -- but venomous in their courage!. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
"Same here," chimed in Herb Fennington, sprawled out in a fashion which if certainly inelegant was quite as certainly comfortable. From Wordnik.com. [The Radio Boys at the Sending Station Making Good in the Wireless Room] Reference
After tinning, the surfaces are laid together and heated so as to "sweat" them together; the phrase, though inelegant, is expressive. From Wordnik.com. [On Laboratory Arts] Reference
Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week could be burdened by a decidedly inelegant accessory during its inaugural run at Lincoln Center: a picket line. From Wordnik.com. [Ugly Battle Brewing Over Fashion Week] Reference
The latter implies fully as great lack of knowledge of social usage, and, in addition, conduct which is primitive and perchance inelegant. From Wordnik.com. [Stanford Achievement Test, Ed. 1922 Advanced Examination, Form A, for Grades 4-8] Reference
Lawyer Penhallow was seated in his study, his day's work over, his feet in slippers, after the comfortable but inelegant fashion which Sir. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867] Reference
To use a phrase graphic if inelegant, he jumped on Conkling with both feet and literally tore him to pieces without any attempt at dignity. From Wordnik.com. [Fifty Years of Public Service] Reference
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