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Inelegancy   Listen
noun
Inelegancy, Inelegance  n.  (pl. inelegances, inelegancies)  
1.
The quality of being inelegant; lack of elegance or grace; lack of refinement, beauty, or polish in language, composition, or manners. "The notorious inelegance of her figure."
2.
Anything inelegant; as, inelegance of style in literary composition.





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"Inelegancy" Quotes from Famous Books



... right to appear in verse than in prose. Then, too, they betray an occasional inelegance of expression ...
— Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 • Howard Phillips Lovecraft
... was not the plumpness of inelegance. Nothing about Aunt Maude was inelegant. She was of ancient Knickerbocker stock. She had been petrified by years of social exclusiveness into something less amiable than her curves and dimples promised. Her ...
— Mistress Anne • Temple Bailey


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