| The inelegance of the appellation perhaps explains why the bird has been permitted to retain it for quite a long while unchanged. |
| Some nights he puts up shots of such inelegance the ball seems propelled by a hammer blow. |
| The last four lines unite incorrectness, tameness, and inelegance with remarkable and fatal facility. |
| One colleague suggested that the existing regimes, for all their shortcomings and obvious inelegance, seemed to work tolerably well. |
| In Japan, the country of my birth, I tried to write in a neutral style, without either elegance or inelegance. |
| Maurice was struck for a moment, but soon saw that the remark was innocent of any inelegance of speech. |
