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What does inelegant mean?

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Adjective
  1. Not elegant; not exhibiting neatness, refinement, or precision.
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The penultimate movement just sort of unravelled at the end and slumped to a very inelegant mess.
In the end I had to take off my jacket, wedge it into the footing and make my way down in an inelegant tangle of legs and arms.
First, the book is loaded with the technical and markedly inelegant jargon of postmodern philosophy.
When you copy from another author and don't let your readers know it, it's called inelegant footnoting, not plagiarism.
Cal snorted in an extremely unladylike and inelegant way, and spoke to her girlfriend.
The youth press is, all too often, a place of bad grammar and inelegant sentences.

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