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What does inelegant mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word inelegant? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Not elegant; not exhibiting neatness, refinement, or precision.
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The youth press is, all too often, a place of bad grammar and inelegant sentences.
Cal snorted in an extremely unladylike and inelegant way, and spoke to her girlfriend.
This sort of inelegant lie should be a warning to anyone who tries to understand the country through the words of their spokesmen.
When you copy from another author and don't let your readers know it, it's called inelegant footnoting, not plagiarism.
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.

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