inelegant

Example Sentences

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The necessary but perhaps inelegant design earned the Space Shuttle its own nickname: the “flying brick.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2026

The clank of this supposed breakthrough idea is as inelegant as the meandering storytelling.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 11, 2025

Hence the event's rather convoluted and inelegant official title.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2025

Plenty of the twists leading up to the last episode are idiotic, including a few scenes relying on CGI distractingly inelegant enough to border on repulsive.

From Salon • Feb. 13, 2025

It seemed so American to her, flossing, that mechanical sliding of a string between teeth, inelegant and functional.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie