Inelegance

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  • noun. Lack of refinement or polish.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The state or character of being inelegant; want of elegance or refinement; lack of any quality required by good taste.
  • noun. That which is inelegant or ungraceful: as, inelegances of style.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The quality of being inelegant; lack of elegance or grace; lack of refinement, beauty, or polish in language, composition, or manners.
  • noun. Anything inelegant.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The state or quality of being inelegant; lack of grace, refinement, beauty, or polish in language, composition, or manners.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the quality of lacking refinement and good taste
  • Word Usage
    "I find it funny that for you, Winter is an "inelegance" - I've lived in Chicago for a year and I know EXACTLY what you mean, what with not being able to leave the house without looking like a puff-ball and still be freezing only to remove the layers of puff and be covered in feathers from your jacket!"
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