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Middle French, from Latin inelegant-, inelegans, from in- + elegant-, elegans elegant
The first known use of inelegant was circa 1570
ineptadjective
not suited for the occasion : inappropriate
an inept remark
lacking in skill or ability : incompetent
ineptadjective
not suited for the occasion : inappropriate
an inept remark
lacking in skill or ability : incompetent
ineligibleadjective
not qualified to be chosen or used
ineligibleadjective
not qualified to be chosen or used
inelegantadjective
lacking in grace or good taste
1 Using diversity as a code for rectifying the racial gaps of 1978 worked, if inelegantly.
2 One of the luxuries of my last Posting in Paris was to spend a winter week in the Alps descending - generally rather inelegantly - some of the world's most spectacular slopes.
上一次得到享受还是在巴黎的时候,虽然技术不佳,但我在阿尔卑斯山滑道上度过了冬日中的一周——那里拥有一些世界上最为壮观的滑道。
3 There's some solid noir atmosphere, courtesy of cinematographer Paul Cameron, but the tension finally bursts as inelegantly as it was manufactured.
4 Three decades of effort have been expended on string theory, which includes gravity but at the expense of having the universe inelegantly sprout hidden dimensions.
而那个花了三十多年努力的“弦理论”,虽然把引力拉扯进来了,代价是让宇宙加几个不知哪冒出来的维度。
5 Dinners in Argentina are eaten late, so assuage your hunger with a stop at a shabby white food truck with “jamón crudo” inelegantly scrawled along the side.
6 Toronto kept pushing forward, Seattle kept clearing their lines, inelegantly but mostly effectively.
7 A classic image shows him staring wistfully across a training pitch in a ballooning plaid shirt, dark T-shirt visible underneath, vast collar splaying inelegantly across his chest.
8 There is no doubt movies denouncing the lack of accountability over police brutality can promote the need to address it, but when done this inelegantly in cinematic form, the intention proves insufficient.
9 July was hot, as Diana had so inelegantly predicted.
10 He later conceded that the speech was "inelegantly expressed", explaining he was "very nervous and my words just came out wrong".
11 With the move to Flushing Meadows, what had been Singer Stadium, from the 1964 World’s Fair, became Louis Armstrong Stadium, with the Grandstand slapped inelegantly onto the side of it.
12 Unlike many of the earlier best picture winners that have aged rather inelegantly, Casablanca, if anything, has matured, its textures deepened.
13 I dodge and turn, but he expects the blow, and I have to stumble inelegantly back, blocking yet another heavy chop of his blade.
14 The vaguest semblance of a plot leads Vikar down a cinematic rabbithole, to discover what he inelegantly refers to as “a movie hidden within all other movies”.
15 At various times in our interview, Kasich faulted his opponents’ negativity, accusing them, a bit inelegantly, of driving the people “into the ditch.”
16 "If I can put it inelegantly, the cat is already out of the bag."
17 And second, his story was inelegantly told, to say the least, packed with a mind-numbing variety of clichés and platitudes.
18 But, instead of smoothly exiting stage left, the President takes an inelegant nosedive.
19 inelegant teens still learning how to act at formal events
20 Chasing Marvel dollars, studios are embracing increasingly vast, obliging, inelegantly bloated narrative models that resolutely fail to marvel.
1 不高雅
4 不雅地