inelegancy

American  

[in-el-i-guhn-see] / ɪnˈɛl ɪ gən si /

noun

• inelegancies
  plural

1. inelegance.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• inelegancies
  plural

Etymology

Origin of inelegancy

First recorded in 1720–30; ineleg(ant) + -ancy

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

inelegancy inelegancies

Those who had found inelegancy and indecency in the previous productions of the painter, would still discover the same defects in the masterpiece he now submitted to the public.

From Great Pictures, As Seen and Described by Famous Writers by Esther Singleton

His vanity is sure to be speedily checked, and first of all by his private tutor, who "slangs" him for a mistake here or an inelegancy there.—Ibid., p.

From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall

The vulgarity is not the vulgarity of the vulgar—the inelegancy is not the spontaneous rudeness of the ill-bred—any more than its doctrine of nature is the doctrine of the unlearned.

From The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded by Delia Bacon

The old stars who appear here, including Patrick Duffy as Bobby Ewing and Linda Hunt as Sue Ellen, will seem like reconnected friends, and audiences will forgive certain inelegancies of style. 

From Slate ● Jun. 13, 2012

Republican critics dwelt with no light hand upon the deficiencies of these volumes, and Marshall himself sadly owned that the "inelegancies" in the first were astonishingly numerous.

From John Marshall and the Constitution; a chronicle of the Supreme court by Edward Samuel Corwin

Never appear in public on horseback unless you have mastered the inelegancies attending a first appearance in the saddle, which you should do at a riding-school.

From Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society by Maud C. Cooke

Nevertheless, as above mentioned, there is an improvement in the latter item; and certain gross inelegancies, which passed unnoticed half a score years ago, now draw down public censure upon their perpetrators.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various

Friendly critics excused some inelegancies which they thought they found in occasional passages, by taking for granted, as was true, that he had admitted insertions from other hands.

From Burke by John Morley