inelegancyn.
/ɪnˈɛlɪɡənsi/ The quality of being inelegant; = inelegance n.
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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
1727 in N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II
1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. v. xix. 303 Whatever futility there may be in their Notions, or inelegancy in their Language.
1887 Spectator 29 Oct. 1460 Those literary inelegancies which seem the besetting sins of lady-novelists.
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