At this moment the lacquey who had been standing behind the future ambassador wiped the latter's nose; and well it was that he did so, since otherwise an inelegant and superfluous drop would have been added to the soup.
He called loudly for his confederates--a band of inelegant infidels--and bidding them stand one by one at given distances, he gaped at them through the glasses with the hilarity of a schoolboy and the stupidity of an owl.
As for the passages quoted, I do confess that some of them reek Gongorically; they are excessive, but they are not inelegantafter all.
Yet is it not certain that, in the style of Livy, Pollio, whose taste had been formed on the banks of the Tiber, detected the inelegant idiom of the Po?
Letters and the fine arts undoubtedly owe much to this not inelegant sloth.
Still, we would hope, that, as relics of the past rescued from the oblivion to which they were inevitably hastening, they are not either an uninteresting or inelegant addition to the literature of our country.
One of the French dressmakers, hurrying from the palace, stood stock still in surprise at seeing so inelegant an equipage in the street of magnificent 'Louisbourg.
I verily believe Madame Friedrich de Grävenitz prefers peasant German to our own speech, and at court no word of that inelegant language could be tolerated.
There is just one right way of spelling, and all others are held to be not simply inelegant or undesirable, but wrong; and unorthodox spelling, like original morality, goes hand in hand with shame.
But a dainty little cupboard can no more entertain black coal and inelegant firewood and keep its daintiness than a mind can entertain black thoughts and yet be sweet.
It was evidently not the work of a novice; it was as much out of place in this obscure and inelegant domicile, as a diamond set in filigree, or a rose among pigweed.
To treat of Elegance in an inelegant Manner is a mere Absurdity; and Conciseness is generally an Attendant of Elegance.
The not inelegant fluted Maximilian armets of the same date are, however, far more frequent.
The elbows are guarded by not inelegant caps, and the gauntlets are miton-fashioned, of eleven small plates, and very flexible.
Convinced nothing," was the inelegant reply of his new ward.
How inelegant would the shapes of all our moveables be without it?
To my inelegant confusion she regarded me for a period as though I had the virtue of having become transparent, and then passed on in a most overwhelming excess of disconcertingly-arranged silence.
Much of the so-called Bombay furniture is clumsy and inelegant in form, defects which it is suggested by experts, like Sir George Birdwood, it owes to the circumstance that the original models were Dutch.
Indeed his work, written in a diffuse and inelegant style, passed almost unnoticed.
You must certainly, in the course of your little experience, have felt the different effects of elegant and inelegant speaking.
It is an inelegant word; it is an inelegant feeling.
From its massive and inelegant proportions, Mr. Dodwell is disposed to believe, that this ruin is the most ancient remaining in Greece.
Their best statues are correct in their proportions, and elegant in their forms; but their paintings are not correct in their proportions, and are, comparatively, inelegant in their forms.
XVI-19] The re-establishment of the succulent quadruped would have been complete, if the cynical carelessness of its rather inelegant habits had not caused it to become a symbol of debauchery and profligacy of manners.
IX-107] The obesity of this vegetable, and its inelegant shape, have doubtless given rise to these injurious remarks.
His profuse and ornamental locks were reduced to a single roughly-plaited coil; his sandals were inelegant and harsh; in place of his many-coloured flowing robes a scanty blue gown clothed his form.
Oliver poured himself out a glass of port and filled his pipe--an inelegant proceeding of which Doggie disapproved.
They can only jerk their heads and grin, an inelegant proceeding, which places them at a disadvantage with the fair sex.
She must "wander in the not inelegant labyrinth;" and if in the midst of it she comes unawares upon the monster vice, she must not start, though she have no clue to secure her retreat.
Metaphysics promised some relief, and I bewildered myself in their not inelegant labyrinth.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inelegant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
