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Recent Examples of inelegant But the controversy over Newsom’s inelegant statement goes to the heart of the Democratic divide right now. Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2025 Director Benedict Andrews has adapted the text with a heavy, though not inelegant, push toward contemporary British rhythms and mores, and the ensemble gets the street-clothes-with-a-nod-to-character treatment. Sara Holdren, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2025 The obvious fix is a little bit of duct tape, an inelegant but quick repair with a resource that most households already have on hand. PC Magazine, 26 Mar. 2025 For such an inelegant behavior to be in chatbots as widespread and popular as GPT is a blunt reminder of two larger, seemingly contrary phenomena. Jonathan L. Zittrain, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for inelegant
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inelegant
Adjective
  • And also burst into laughter – uncomfortable laughter.
    Katcy Stephan, Variety, 29 June 2025
  • There was one uncomfortable moment when the Bruins’ brass on Causeway Street, trying to interface with Hagens at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles via Zoom, could not hear the player and the broadcast had to move on.
    Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 28 June 2025
Adjective
  • The banning of a Chicago White Sox fan from Rate Field for inappropriate heckling of Arizona Diamondbacks second baseman Ketel Marte was a good first step, writes Paul Sullivan.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 26 June 2025
  • Satisfied that there may have indeed been inappropriate action on the part of the veteran Karate Kid actor, Sony addressed Kove directly.
    Dominic Patten, Deadline, 26 June 2025
Adjective
  • Herbert includes a range of moments, from earnest attempts to talk about the enslaved people that maintained all these palatial homes to clumsier ones in which they are referred to as workers, insinuating that their labor was paid for instead of forced.
    Lovia Gyarkye, HollywoodReporter, 20 June 2025
  • The aftermath of Virginia’s clumsy tumble into a rose bed where her exposed cleavage is profusely pricked by thorns lasts for all of one scene.
    Courtney Howard, Variety, 16 June 2025
Adjective
  • Consider a car engine: Removing deposits and sludge (inaccurate, outdated, irrelevant and incorrect information) reduces friction, while clean oil (large language models and AI) ensures smooth performance.
    Savinay Berry, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025
  • Belief in other scientifically incorrect claims can be extremely dangerous.
    Mark Boslough, Scientific American, 25 June 2025
Adjective
  • The next mayor, like so many of his predecessors, will have to engage in awkward negotiations with politicians in Albany.
    John Cassidy, New Yorker, 30 June 2025
  • Barely a week goes by without some fresh young talent arriving in West London to pose for the media with a Blue jersey and an awkward grin.
    Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
Adjective
  • This is due to the fact that research shows that distilled water, which is what our devices produce before mineralization, may be unsuitable for prolonged consumption.
    Joe Salas June 09, New Atlas, 9 June 2025
  • The family-friend label came a cropper after it was slapped with a multi-million-dollar copyright lawsuit by Disney, Warner Bros. and other major Hollywood studios for making unauthorized cuts – of scenes deemed unsuitable for family viewing by the brothers – to their movies and series.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 3 June 2025
Adjective
  • Edan Lui of Hong Kong boy band Mirror will also make his Korean drama debut in the new season, joining the cast in a role that pairs him in an uneasy alliance with Kim Do-gi.
    Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 25 June 2025
  • Repeatedly returning to themes of globalization and alienation, the 55-year-old director has meticulously chronicled his country’s uneasy plunge into the 21st century as rampant industrialization risks deadening those left behind.
    Tim Grierson, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2025
Adjective
  • Wearing an unfashionable but marginally faster time-trial helmet, Van Uden held off Kooij with a long-range sprint to take a surprise win — and secure a hugely important point tally for Picnic PostNL.
    Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 19 May 2025
  • As evening fell, the drizzle let up and the creatures of the night were able to shed their unfashionable plastic ponchos.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 19 May 2025

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“Inelegant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inelegant. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.

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