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The quality of being inelegant; want of elegance or grace; want of refinement, beauty, or polish in language, composition, or manners.

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  1. n. The quality of being inelegant; want of elegance or grace; want of refinement, beauty, or polish in language, composition, or manners.
  2. n. Anything inelegant; as, inelegance of style in literary composition.
  3. 1. The quality of being inelegant; want of elegance or grace; want of refinement, beauty, or polish in language, composition, or manners. The notorious inelegance of her figure. T. Hook. 2. Anything inelegant; as, inelegance of style in literary composition.
  4. n. The quality of being inelegant; want of elegance or grace; want of refinement, beauty, or polish in language, composition, or manners. n. Anything inelegant; as, inelegance of style in literary composition.