Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
inelegance .
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- noun Alternative form of
inelegance .
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Examples
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He brought Parliament, Government, the inelegancy services and the principle of intervention into distribute and it will take a long time to repair the damage.
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Hitchcock wanted to experiment for once with inelegancy.
Recession Cinema: <i>Torn Curtain</i>, Featuring Paul Newman and a Must-See Death Scene 2008
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The vulgarity is not _the_ vulgarity of the vulgar -- the inelegancy is not the spontaneous rudeness of the ill-bred -- any more than its doctrine of nature is the doctrine of the unlearned.
The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded Delia Bacon 1835
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