inelegancen.
/ɪnˈɛlɪɡəns/ The fact or quality of being inelegant; want of refined grace of form or manner; clumsiness; an instance of this.
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the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > inelegance > [noun]
uncomeliness1542
unhandsomenessa1586
indecorum1598
unseemliness1598
inconcinnity1616
undress1684
inelegance1726
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > inelegance > [noun]
roughnessa1398
beggarliness1542
crabbedness1546
barbarousness1549
grossness1563
rusticity1565
barbarism1578
inconcinnity1616
ungracefulness1658
incuriosity1661
incomptness1669
uncouthness1672
unpoliteness1684
barbarity1706
inelegance1726
inelegancy1727
scabrousness1727
asperity1779
crudity1885
ineloquence1894
1726 Four Years Voy. Capt. G. Roberts Ded. sig. Aiij v Pardon the Inelegance, &c. of this unpolish'd Essay.
1781 S. Johnson Watts in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets VIII. 13 Whatever they had among them before, whether of learning or acuteness, was commonly obscured and blunted by coarseness and inelegance of stile.
1837 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe I. vi. 513 Their intemperance, their coarseness, their inelegance, their scurrility..are not compensated..by any impressive eloquence.
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