inelegant
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Synonyms & Antonyms for inelegant
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awkward, clumsy, gauche, graceless, rough-hewn, rustic (also rustical), stiff, stilted, uncomfortable, uneasy, ungraceful, wooden
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After five straight nonwinning seasons, even inelegant wins can be enough to satisfy followers of a team that entered the season opener with 18 wins in their past 69 games. — Eric Branch, SFChronicle.com, "Examining the warts in 49ers’ inelegant season-opening victory," 9 Sep. 2019 Which is my inelegant way of saying that Codemasters' newest Formula 1 racing game, F1 2019, is here. — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, "F1 2019 simulates the highs and lows of motorsport, on and off the track," 26 June 2019 If Sunday was a dud that even the glass-half-full manager labeled a disappointment, Monday represented an inelegant sequel for the Red Sox. — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, "Persistent Red Sox beat back, walk off Chicago," 24 June 2019 In the absence of a compelling reason, most mathematicians would consider the rejection of double factors to be arbitrary and therefore inelegant. — Quanta Magazine, "Solution: ‘Be Still My Pulsating Sequence’," 25 Nov. 2015 Movies don’t need to be as sparse as the original Predator, but this version seems to pad on storylines just for the sake of having them, all cut together in a surprisingly inelegant way. — Bryan Bishop, The Verge, "The Predator could have been the franchise’s chance to finally have an identity," 8 Sep. 2018 James spread 35 points, 15 rebounds and 9 assists across 48 minutes of an inelegant but compelling war of inept 3-point shooting and attrition. — New York Times, "Look Who Answered LeBron’s Call: Jeff Green, the Former Celtic," 28 May 2018 In San Francisco, where it is widely supposed that conservatives are full of excrement, many locals remain oblivious to their town’s hyper-conservative streak even as folks protesting scooters adopt the inelegant tactic of defecating on them. — Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, "Fly On, My Sleek Electric Bird," 30 May 2018 The asteroid has the inelegant name of 2015 BZ509, indicating the year of its discovery. — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, "Asteroid is first known 'permanent resident' from outside our solar system," 21 May 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'inelegant.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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