Synonyms for inelegance
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : in-el-i-guh ns |
| Phonetic Transcription : ɪnˈɛl ɪ gəns |
Top 10 synonyms for inelegance Other synonyms for the word inelegance
- assumption
- audaciousness
- audacity
- boldness
- brashness
- brazenness
- cheek
- cheekiness
- chutzpah
- discourtesy
- disrespect
- effrontery
- face
- familiarity
- faux pas
- forwardness
- gall
- gracelessness
- immodesty
- impertinence
- improperness
- impropriety
- impudence
- inappropriateness
- incivility
- incongruity
- incorrectness
- indecorum
- indelicacy
- inelegance
- ineptitude
- infelicity
- insolence
- nerve
- nerviness
- overconfidence
- pertness
- presumptuousness
- pushiness
- rudeness
- sassiness
- sauciness
- slip
- solecism
- unbecomingness
- uncoordination
- unfitness
- unseemliness
- unsuitability
- unsuitableness
- vulgarism
- vulgarity
Définition 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
- 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
Antonyms for inelegance
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