| This sort of inelegant lie should be a warning to anyone who tries to understand the country through the words of their spokesmen. |
| He deplored the inelegant roughness and dull hilarity of their conversation. |
| Cal snorted in an extremely unladylike and inelegant way, and spoke to her girlfriend. |
| When you copy from another author and don't let your readers know it, it's called inelegant footnoting, not plagiarism. |
| One objection is that they'll let various inelegant usages into the language, but that is a tough basis on which to make one's argument. |
| That's an inelegant way to describe it, I know, but when I was looking at it, I felt this pull in me. |
