How to Use inelegant in a Sentence

inelegant

adjective

• Biden often says the wrong thing, the awkward thing, the inelegant thing, on the subject of race.
  — Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2021
• The size of the eMeet Jupiter is best described as chunky and slightly inelegant.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 16 Apr. 2021
• For a time it was even called the Zein—an inelegant name which pays no homage to the ship’s iconic former owner.
  — Todd Plummer, Vogue, 16 Jan. 2018
• In the scheme of a global pandemic, do a few inelegant words matter?
  — Rumaan Alam, The New Yorker, 19 May 2020
• The tastiest meals are made with the best ingredients, but that doesn’t mean cooking has to be tedious or inelegant.
  — Anthony Marcusa, chicagotribune.com, 16 Nov. 2021
• The need to meet safety standards for road use has also brought inelegant pillars for three-point seatbelts.
  — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 17 Aug. 2023
• The kind of grief that urges you to song is inelegant, a hot devil nearly impossible to wrestle into form.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
• An elegant tool with an inelegant name, Crispr-Cas9 has electrified the biotech world.
  — Jeff Wheelwright, Discover Magazine, 2 May 2016
• The inelegant orange wedges that came with my school lunches were a personal insult.
  — Connie Wang, refinery29.com, 7 Sep. 2022
• New York’s subway was considered dirty and crime-ridden, and its stations cramped and inelegant.
  — Martine Powers, Washington Post, 8 July 2017
• But in the hands of geologists, quantum physics has brought to light the glorious, messy, and very inelegant history of our planet.
  — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 15 Jan. 2012
• Tesla has an inelegant solution where the visor sits on the A-pillar and can be swung out to magnetically connect to the rear-view mirror.
  — Jordan Golson, Ars Technica, 21 Jan. 2018
• The set, an inelegant clash of surrealism and realism, does not help Stevenson’s cause.
  — Mitchel Benson, sacbee, 1 Nov. 2017
• The whole thing feels inelegant compared to Apple’s typical style.
  — Popular Science, 30 Nov. 2020
• This makes the show feel inelegant, and a bit unsexy, but also exceedingly in tune with the realities of the music industry.
  — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 24 May 2017
• And something about the disconnect between how far-reaching our thoughts and emotions and ideas can be within our heads, and yet we’re confined to these weird kind of fleshy things that go wrong and need maintaining in a messy and inelegant way.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2024
• The biggest downside to this solution is that this is an inelegant fix for those who prefer slimmer cardholders.
  — Chuong Nguyen, Ars Technica, 16 Aug. 2023
• Hence, McConnell’s conundrum, which manifested in this week’s brazen and inelegant shut-up-but-give stance.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 7 Apr. 2021
• Many of these guns are the inelegant spawn of heavy-barreled target rifles and traditional hunting bolt actions.
  — John B. Snow, Field & Stream, 1 Oct. 2020
• 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, 8 Sep. 2018
• This is the latest incarnation of a metropolis of 15 million, a bit blustery and inelegant, eager to show off, maybe take a selfie.
  — Carl Swanson, Town & Country, 28 Nov. 2022
• As an allegory for the illusory promise of the American dream, the show is rather inelegant.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 19 Feb. 2023
• In fact, this rehab stay was Robin and Susan’s understandably inelegant fix for a problem that had no solution.
  — Dave Itzkoff, HWD, 8 May 2018
• As edited, these interruptions can be jarring and inelegant, but that seems true to the experience of trauma.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 14 Mar. 2024
• Climbing in requires an inelegant shuffle over the sidepod and then collapsing into the carbon-fiber racing seat.
  — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 6 Mar. 2023
• 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, 9 Sep. 2019
• Even when the romantic trio seem too aware of the laughs, watching them — particularly the wonderfully inelegant Ms. Khosh — is a delight.
  — Maya Phillips, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2018
• The Montana 99 floorplate release is a spring-loaded catch--simple and inelegant, but effective.
  — David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 7 Jan. 2020
• Data labeling has always been a kludgy, inelegant part of the modern machine learning pipeline.
  — Rob Toews, Forbes, 12 June 2022
• Scorsese’s movie is — for all of its cinematic excellence, lush design, and elegiac tone — sloppy and inelegant as a work of storytelling.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 10 Dec. 2019

Last Updated: 3 Dec 2024