inelegantlyadv.
/ɪnˈɛlɪɡəntli/ In an inelegant manner; ungracefully, clumsily.
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the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > inelegance > [adverb]
unburlya1400
ungoodlya1400
unhandsomely1565
undecently1587
unhandsome1596
unhandsomely1650
inelegantly1698
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > inelegance > [adverb]
barbarously1531
rustically1548
crabbedly1561
scabrouslya1572
gracelesslya1586
unelegantly1603
uneloquently1611
crudely1638
inelegantly1698
ineloquently1828
1698 R. South 12 Serm. III. 477 He was not so much buryed, as..deposited in the Grave for a small inconsiderable space; So that even in this respect he may not inelegantly be said to have tasted of Death.
1779 S. Johnson Milton in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets II. 168 Comus..is a drama in the epic stile, inelegantly splendid, and tediously instructive.
1860 R. W. Emerson Beauty in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 255 The cat and the deer cannot move or sit inelegantly.
1871 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera I. iv. 20 We fight inelegantly as well as expensively, with machines instead of bow and spear.
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