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Inelegance

noun
(pl. inelegances, inelegancies)
1.
The quality of lacking refinement and good taste.






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"Inelegance" Quotes from Famous Books



... do them justice, attend very minutely to the purity, the correctness, and the elegance of their style in conversation and in their letters. 'Bien narrer' is an object of their study; and though they sometimes carry it to affectation, they never sink into inelegance, which is much the worst extreme of the two. Observe them, and form your French style upon theirs: for elegance in one language will reproduce itself in all. I knew a young man, who, being just elected a member of parliament, was laughed at for being discovered, through ...
— The PG Edition of Chesterfield's Letters to His Son • The Earl of Chesterfield

... you to pardon the inelegance of my expression, and also my pertinacity in insisting upon some explanation of your manner toward me. It will all do very well for the stage," continued I, bitterly, "but in real life, among cousins, and two that have met so frankly, and in such sincerity, I feel that our acquaintanceship ...
— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 4 October 1848 • Various



Words linked to "Inelegance" :   shabbiness, roughness, awkwardness, elegance, pretentiousness, manginess, drabness, tweediness, homeliness, crudeness, raunch, vulgarism, tastelessness, pomposity, coarseness, inelegant, splashiness, uncouthness, clumsiness, seediness, inflation, puffiness, dowdiness, vulgarity, ostentation, stiffness, pompousness, commonness, grossness, sleaziness, gracelessness, boorishness, quality, ostentatiousness



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