INELEGANT, INELEGANTLY
ADJECTIVES
► CLUMSY AS A DUCK IN A PLOUGHED PADDOCK very clumsy or inelegant → 1999 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► CLUNKY solid, heavy, and somewhat inelegant; often said of shoes → 1968
► GROSS of language, speech, or composition: inelegant; unpolished; unsophisticated → 1522 obs.
► ILL-FANCIED inelegant in design → 1716 obs.
► INCOMPT void of neatness; inelegant → a1628 obs.
► INCULT of persons, their manners, etc.: wanting in culture or refinement; inelegant, rough, coarse → 1628
► KLUDGY made in an awkward, makeshift, or, haphazard manner; inelegant → 1970 sl.
► LEWD of speech and the like: rude, artless, inelegant → c1425 obs.
► UNBORELY ► UNBURLY uncomely, inelegant → a1400 obs.
► UNCOMBED rude, inelegant → 1633
► UNCOMPT of style: inelegant, unpolished → 1633 obs.
► UNDRESSED inelegant, unkempt → 1598
ADVERBS
► INCONCINNATELY inelegantly → 1623 obs.
► PUDGILY lethargically, inelegantly, or unimaginatively → 1894
► UNBURLY inelegantly → c1475 obs.
► UNDECENTLY inelegantly, unhandsomely → 1587 obs.
► UNHANDSOMELY inelegantly, ungracefully → 1565
NOUNS
► CLUNKER a large, ungainly, or inelegant example of something → 1945
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