Antonyms for inelegance

Grammar : Noun

Spell : in-el-i-guh ns

Phonetic Transcription : ɪnˈɛl ɪ gəns

Definition of inelegance

As in impropriety : noun bad taste, mistake
As in bad form : noun bad style
As in artlessness : noun unskillfulness
As in improperness : noun impropriety
As in impudency : noun impudence
As in inappropriateness : noun impropriety
As in indecorum : noun impropriety
As in indelicacy : noun impropriety
As in unbecomingness : noun impropriety
As in unfitness : noun impropriety
As in unseemliness : noun impropriety
As in unsuitability : noun impropriety
As in unsuitableness : noun impropriety

Example sentences :

Charlie seemed rather pleased than otherwise at my inelegance.
Extract from : « The Love Affairs of an Old Maid » by Lilian Bell

Yet Aunt Maude's plumpness was not the plumpness of inelegance.
Extract from : « Mistress Anne » by Temple Bailey

The last four lines unite incorrectness, tameness, and inelegance with remarkable and fatal facility.
Extract from : « The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 » by Various

The inelegance of the appellation perhaps explains why the bird has been permitted to retain it for quite a long while unchanged.
Extract from : « Birds of the Indian Hills » by Douglas Dewar

Therefore in the machine two cane stilts were indispensable, although their inelegance greatly disturbed the inventor.
Extract from : « The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci » by Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky

The expression "equal legs" is now being discarded on the score of inelegance.
Extract from : « The Teaching of Geometry » by David Eugene Smith

Inelegance, in-el′e-gans, n. want of elegance: want of beauty or polish—also Inel′egancy.
Extract from : « Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) » by Various

And as long as meanings are clear, good Logic is compatible with false concords and inelegance of style.
Extract from : « Logic » by Carveth Read

Pray excuse the inelegance of this scrawl, and believe me yours in haste, William D. Pitman.'
Extract from : « The Wrong Box » by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne

Maurice was struck for a moment, but soon saw that the remark was innocent of any inelegance of speech.
Extract from : « The Puppet Crown » by Harold MacGrath

Synonyms for inelegance

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