inelegancy
noun
inelegancies
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pluralof inelegancy.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
The sort of thing that makes a person at home and au fait everywhere, and in all companies, and shuts out awkwardnesses and inelegancies.
From Nobody by Susan Warner
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
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
Standing beside Milla, he was incapable of his former inelegancies and his voice was in a semi-paralyzed condition, like the rest of him.
From Ramsey Milholland by Booth Tarkington
