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Thesaurus: inelegant

Not elegant; deficient in beauty, polish, refinement, grave, or ornament; wanting in anything which correct taste requires.

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  1. a. Not elegant; deficient in beauty, polish, refinement, grave, or ornament; wanting in anything which correct taste requires.
  2. adj. lacking in refinement or grace or good taste
  3. Not elegant; deficient in beauty, polish, refinement, grave, or ornament; wanting in anything which correct taste requires. What order so contrived as not to mix Tastes, not well joined, inelegant. Milton. It renders style often obscure, always embarrassed and inelegant. Blair.
  4. Not elegant; deficient in beauty, polish, refinement, grave, orornament; wanting in anything which correct taste requires.What order so contrived as not to mix Tastes, not well joined,inelegant. Milton.It renders style often obscure, always embarrassed and inelegant.Blair.
  5. j:100 a. lacking in refinement or grace or good taste