The quality of being rough in texture, esp. to the touch; (also) concrete the rough part of something.

Beggarly quality or condition.

Ruggedness, roughness, asperity; rugged or perverse intricacy of language, questions, etc.

The quality of being barbarous; the degree of barbarism or barbarity. in language.

Coarseness, want of fineness or refinement. of habits, ideas, speech, etc.

Of language or literary composition: lack of polish or refinement; inelegance; (without negative connotations) rural character or style.

The use of words or expressions not in accordance with the classical standard of a language, especially such as are of foreign origin; originally…

Want of concinnity, congruousness, or proportion; inelegance, awkwardness; impropriety, unsuitableness.

(un-, prefix1 affix 6; cf. ungracefully, adv.)

The quality of being objectively incurious, or not carefully composed; homeliness, inelegance.

inelegance.

The quality or condition of being uncouth, in various senses.

Lack of intellectual refinement or sophistication; inelegance. Obsolete.

Of language: = barbarism, n. 1, and 1b ? Obsolete.

The fact or quality of being inelegant; want of refined grace of form or manner; clumsiness; an instance of this.

The quality of being inelegant; = inelegance, n.

ruggedness, hardness.

Of literary style: Ruggedness, lack of polish, inelegance. archaic.

Unpolished plainness or ‘brutality’ of statement or expression: cf. crude, adj. 8.

Want of eloquence; the quality of being ineloquent; (in Carlyle) the reverse of eloquence or speaking out; silence.