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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

They had talked on a variety of topics: of tarpon fishing in Florida; of amateur photography, in which the hostess was proficient, and of gardens; of the latest novels and some current inelegancies of speech.

From The Law-Breakers and Other Stories by Grant, Robert

He was of the plain people, and at times lapsed into the colloquial inelegancies of his early life.

From The Broken Gate A Novel by Hough, Emerson

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 Morley, John

The glare of lights, the studied inelegancies of dress, and the compliments offered up at the shrine of false beauty, are all equally addressed to the senses.

From Mary A Fiction by Wollstonecraft, Mary