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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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And I ended, as old fogies are entitled to do by slagging off today's so-called operating systems, describing them as crude and inelegant.
That's an inelegant way to describe it, I know, but when I was looking at it, I felt this pull in me.
The penultimate movement just sort of unravelled at the end and slumped to a very inelegant mess.
First, the book is loaded with the technical and markedly inelegant jargon of postmodern philosophy.
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.
This sort of inelegant lie should be a warning to anyone who tries to understand the country through the words of their spokesmen.

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