How To Use Inelegant In A Sentence
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It's inelegant to seek some sort of solution to life or some final, perfect form of life.
THE BROKEN GOD
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Although written in rather inelegant and sometimes ungrammatical prose, this is an insightful and original work, based on a remarkable range of evidence.
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It was brutish and inelegant but hugely enjoyable.
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When you copy from another author and don't let your readers know it, it's called inelegant footnoting, not plagiarism.
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But now we're in the narrowcasting world of ETFs, with funds tracking a multitude of sometimes obscure — and inelegantly named — indexes.
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Like a college dormitory, the company's offices are inelegantly furnished, casually organized, and deeply marked by the personalities that reside there.
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Why are other magazines so successful in filling up their copies with lucrative advertising and this one only attracts a few inelegant, inartistic, advertisers?
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Every so often there is a frenzy of activity, involving the chorus charging off stage or a supremely inelegant dance.
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Stiff and inelegant, she followed him, more anxious than ever in her life to please.
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Finally, I beg forgiveness from all brachiosaur lovers, that so beautiful an animal as 'Brachiosaurus' brancai now has to be known by so inelegant a name as Giraffatitan.
"Nothing remains. We could run when the rain slows."
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She used the inelegant, once-irritating pet name much less now.
IN LOVE AND WAR
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He mumbles an unheard one-liner about losing his damage deposit as he wrenches the door of the moving car open and dives inelegantly inside.
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He deplored the inelegant roughness and dull hilarity of their conversation.
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In the end I had to take off my jacket, wedge it into the footing and make my way down in an inelegant tangle of legs and arms.
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An inelegant or nonstandard repair that nevertheless works.
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As I scrambled inelegantly up into the driver's seat, I began to regret my gung-ho attitude of earlier that day.
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The penultimate movement (in which the four soloists sing with both choirs) just sort of unravelled at the end and slumped to a very inelegant mess.
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It gets the info across but also sets a workmanlike and inelegant tone.
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From the late 1960s the hotel slid into a prolonged and inelegant decline.
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It was dark and slightly inelegant, and I thought it was so cool.
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She used the inelegant, once-irritating pet name much less now.
IN LOVE AND WAR
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Second only to the inelegant word ‘Kafkaesque’, the term ‘Orwellian’ is the next most over-used adjective in the English language.
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But if our design is slapdash and our carving is hasty, why, the proportions will be inelegant and the balance untrue.
VALENTINE PONTIFEX
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First, the book is loaded with the technical and markedly inelegant jargon of postmodern philosophy.
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That's an inelegant way to describe it, I know, but when I was looking at it, I felt this pull in me.
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Drink choices include a house red and white wine (served in an inelegant tumbler), teas, coffees and juices.
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She used the inelegant, once-irritating pet name much less now.
IN LOVE AND WAR
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He, a thorough, rather heavy man, was known to be inelegant on paper.
DARE CALL IT TREASON
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Looking along the street towards the snow-sugared mountains in the distance, packs of pie-eyed youths stagger out of bars, shrieking and lumbering around inelegantly like something out of a painting by Bosch.
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It's inelegant to seek some sort of solution to life or some final, perfect form of life.
THE BROKEN GOD
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For too long sword-wielding psychos have been brought down with bullets or capsicum spray, methods which are not only unfair, but inelegant.
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I don't think there is a disagreeable, inelegant sentence in the book.
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I want him to feel so unhappy that he makes an inelegant departure.
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It may have looked somewhat inelegant, but it worked so well for 45 years that it attracted international attention.
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It's inelegant to seek some sort of solution to life or some final, perfect form of life.
THE BROKEN GOD
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The grand piano has been replaced with a small, inelegant electric model.
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The policy's inelegantly titled operating principle is called, "ecosystem- based coastal and marine spatial planning.
David Helvarg: A Republican Leader Takes Aim at Ocean Protection
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Your, etc. You will tell me, possibly, that this is a caricatura of an illiberal and inelegant style: I will admit it; but assure you, at the same time, that a dispatch with less than half these faults would blow you up forever.
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Finally, there is a five-metre body of water that I'll inelegantly call a flop pool.
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But if our design is slapdash and our carving is hasty, why, the proportions will be inelegant and the balance untrue.
VALENTINE PONTIFEX
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‘Walter and Jane,’ the second poem, is an artless tale of two lovers, related with a simplicity by no means inelegant, in couplet verse; and to a manner calculated to remind the reader of the narrative style of our best
Review of 'Rural Tales, Ballads, and Songs'
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And let's not forget Big Bill Thompson, the Chicago Mayor who threatened bodily harm to Britain's and Canada's King if he poked what Mr. Thompson somewhat inelegantly called his snoot into Chicago.
Canadian and American Relations
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We were in what people call inelegantly, but accurately, "the killing fields", and that day we were to pass through places that saw the misery of two World Wars.
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There is a clunky, inelegant quality to these objects that is matched by the deliberately crude quality of the plywood tables and shelves on which they rest.
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Mark had been raised with farm horses, slaving for the uncle who grudged him house-room and food, and he still rode farm fashion, inelegant but durable, now that the bishop's stable had provided him a fine tall gelding in place of a plodding farm drudge.
His Disposition
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In 37 years it has never looked so inelegant and bedraggled.
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The great man's house was a contrast: a large and inelegant structure, painted white outside but with the rooms inside very dark.
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It is associated with a phenomenon known, somewhat inelegantly, as upwelling.
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And without some healthy cynicism, these inelegantly protracted negotiations could seriously compromise the prospect of a deal being struck in Durban.
Jonathan Wootliff: Good News From Durban
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The other sensation Rollses are famous for is called, inelegantly, waftability: a sensation of effortless power, an inimitable feeling of gaining, rising, frictionless, mechanically multiplied self-determination as the driver buries a right foot into the shearing wool carpet.
The Face of Green?
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And I ended, as old fogies are entitled to do by slagging off today's so-called operating systems, describing them as crude and inelegant.
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While he continues to deliver low blows in equally inelegant packaging, his apologists say he merely has an unclassifiable sense of humour.
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One objection is that they'll let various inelegant usages into the language, but that is a tough basis on which to make one's argument.
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It is associated with a phenomenon known, somewhat inelegantly, as upwelling.
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Margery snorted inelegantly before lifting her cup to blow across the hot liquid.
Healing the Highlander
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The youth press is, all too often, a place of bad grammar and inelegant sentences.
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The use of inelegant and possibly inappropriate kanji floored me, and to top it all off, I was sitting in front of speakers blasting Indian fusion music.
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Cal snorted in an extremely unladylike and inelegant way, and spoke to her girlfriend.
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Her legs splayed inelegantly and with her mouth wide and dry with fear, she stared up at the stranger.
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The young gentleman listens manfully to my abortive attempts to demonstrate my interest with a light smile, while I slowly turn an inelegant purple.
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You could hardly call it normality, especially in a country that prefers the inelegant word ‘normalcy’.
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After decades of effort, Hollywood is finally "plugging the analog hole," as it's inelegantly been called, thanks to new restrictions imposed by the licensing administrator for the AACS, the copy-protection scheme used in Blu-ray players.
Goodbye, HD component video: Hollywood hastens the 'analog sunset'
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My walk is an inelegant bob… as if navigating a choppy sea.
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I came across a sign the other day, inelegantly scrawled on cardboard and stuck to a telephone pole.
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The grand piano has been replaced with a small, inelegant electric model.
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This sort of inelegant lie should be a warning to anyone who tries to understand the country through the words of their spokesmen.
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My walk is an inelegant bob… as if navigating a choppy sea.
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But if our design is slapdash and our carving is hasty, why, the proportions will be inelegant and the balance untrue.
VALENTINE PONTIFEX
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Stiff and inelegant, she followed him, more anxious than ever in her life to please.
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The instances given are, in the inelegant language of paragraph 5, ‘non-exhaustive’.
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I could not be more pleased that we are having this debate, however inelegantly it may have been brought up, because that is a very good question.
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Good games can be elegant or inelegant, elegant games can be good or bad.
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The grand piano has been replaced with a small, inelegant electric model.
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He teetered, lost his balance and fell off, making a tremendous splash as he hit the water with an inelegant bellyflop and an angry shout.
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When you reach a certain age, it's kind of inelegant to date.
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Feeling utterly stupid I gathered myself up from under the rubble and hobbled inelegantly to find a first aider.
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He, a thorough, rather heavy man, was known to be inelegant on paper.
DARE CALL IT TREASON
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Ain't no jibba jabbaBottom 7th: Bryan Shaw is a good choice as relief pitcher for the Dbacks striking out three, McGeHee, Hart and Morgan, with Nyjer looking particularly inelegant as he falls and simultaneously flings his bat towards the dugout in his strikeout swing.
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He, a thorough, rather heavy man, was known to be inelegant on paper.
DARE CALL IT TREASON
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His ungainly, inelegant posture can leave him exposed against nimbler opponents, and he easily attracts ridicule.
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Finally, she sits gracefully on the floor on one side of a coffee table and I sprawl inelegantly across the carpet on the other.
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One inelegantly phrased exit poll Tuesday found 45% favored tax cuts or spending increases to help the economy while 39% made reducing the deficit a higher priority (which, except to some economic alchemists, means tax increases and spending cuts.)
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The other extreme of inelegant solution is to become callous and indifferent to the suffering of others.
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The grand piano has been replaced with a small, inelegant electric model.
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After taking a look on that the daughter college student aha is drunk inelegant behavior!
