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inelegant

/in-el-i-guhnt/US // ɪnˈɛl ɪ gənt //UK // (ɪnˈɛlɪɡənt) //

不雅观,不雅观的,不雅,拙劣的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : not elegant; lacking in refinement, gracefulness, or good taste.

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Examples

  • No, she didn’t put the pieces of tape on the outside of the pants — that would have been inelegant and unstylish — she put them unobtrusively on the inside of the pants, each covering one of the two holes.

  • At 9, he taught inelegant programming languages like Visual Basic and COBOL to his sister — then a college sophomore.

  • Hence, McConnell’s conundrum, which manifested in this week’s brazen and inelegant shut-up-but-give stance.

  • That leaves us with “pandemic,” an inelegant word that’s probably hard to rhyme.

  • Fluoride first entered an American water supply through a rather inelegant technocratic scheme.

  • The clothes, however, were a chaotic pastiche of fur and glitter assembled in inelegant ways.

  • It was Callista, officer, who forced her husband to make his inelegant comments on Medicare that infuriated the conservative base.

  • Its components were simple, inelegant, and, by Western standards, of seemingly workmanlike craftsmanship.

  • Duffer is most inelegant (this from Julie in an assumption of stern reproach); I do not see wherever you picked up such a word.

  • This inelegant jeu de theatre is severely ridiculed in the "Rehearsal."

  • Did you have a recollection at the time, at least—that is an inelegant question.

  • The use of tre for aller when followed by an infinitive is inelegant, though the construction is sometimes used by good writers.

  • It is easy to read in this illustration the parable of death destroying a fruitful vine, and as a picture it is not inelegant.