Crossword-Solution: INELEGANT
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Inelegant | a. | Not elegant; deficient in beauty, polish, refinement, grave, or ornament; wanting in anything which correct taste requires. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
|---|---|---|
| INELEGANT | anagram | EGLANTINE, GALENTINE |
We have 82 clues for the answer “INELEGANT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| lacking in refinement or grace or good taste | 1 answer |
| lacking elegance or refinement | 1 answer |
| Not at all graceful | 1 answer |
| Lacking style and grace | 1 answer |
| Lacking in grace | 1 answer |
| Lacking finesse. | 1 answer |
| Deficient in refinement. | 1 answer |
| WANTING good taste | 2 answers |
| LACKING good taste | 3 answers |
| Lacking polish | 5 answers |
| Ham-handed | 5 answers |
| LACKING grace | 7 answers |
| Not refined | 7 answers |
| Lacking refinement | 10 answers |
| Inartistic | 12 answers |
| GRUNGY | 15 answers |
| out at heels | 16 answers |
| all thumbs | 23 answers |
| imperspicuous | 23 answers |
| Oafish | 25 answers |
| crass | 27 answers |
| Tawdry | 31 answers |
| Rumpled | 35 answers |
| Laboured | 38 answers |
| forced | 39 answers |
| Inexpedient | 39 answers |
| Penniless | 42 answers |
| Garish | 43 answers |
| Needy | 43 answers |
| Worn out | 47 answers |
| Threadbare | 48 answers |
| frumpy | 49 answers |
| out of your depth | 50 answers |
| Tacky | 51 answers |
| uncombed | 52 answers |
| scruffy | 52 answers |
| discomforted | 53 answers |
| Unbecoming | 53 answers |
| insolvent | 54 answers |
| ungraceful | 55 answers |
| youngish | 55 answers |
| dowdy | 55 answers |
| ill at ease | 56 answers |
| Uncultivated | 56 answers |
| frowzy | 56 answers |
| Bedraggled | 56 answers |
| Unpolished | 58 answers |
| unprofessional | 58 answers |
| Unworldly | 59 answers |
| Tattered | 59 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATREE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with INELEGANT (5)
Usually derogatory, implying that the original was being overextended and should have been thrown away, and the new product is ugly, inelegant, or bloated.
The priest had only watched for a few more minutes the absurd but not inelegant dance of the amateur harlequin over his splendidly unconscious foe.
There was not a tennis-court in the town; physical exercise was thought rather inelegant for the daughters of well-to-do families.
That was enough for the old swells! They retired to the remote "Allee of the Acacias," and solemnly took their airing away from the bustle of the new world, incidentally setting a fashion that has held good to this day; the lakeside being now deserted, and the "Acacias" crowded of an afternoon, by all that Paris holds of elegant and inelegant.
But a style which is indefatigably lively, telling, and picturesque through six large volumes of everyday experience, which deals with the whole matter of a life, and yet is rarely wearisome, which condescends to the most fastidious particulars, and yet sweeps all away in the forthright current of the narrative,—such a style may be ungrammatical, it may be inelegant, it may be one tissue of mistakes, but it can never be devoid of merit.
Quotes with INELEGANT (3)
What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a theory that is inelegant.
In fact, biology is chaos. Biological systems are the product not of logic but of evolution, an inelegant process. Life does not choose the logically best design to meet a new situation. It adapts what already exists... The result, unlike the clean straight lines of logic, is often irregular, messy.
Lucinda might sneak from her own house at midnight to place a wager somewhere else, but she dared not touch the pack that lay in her own sideboard. She knew how passionate he had become about his 'weakness.' She dared not even ask him how it was he had reversed his opinions on the matter. But, oh, how she yearned to discuss it with him, how much she wished to deal a hand on a grey wool blanket. There would be no headaches then, only this sweet consummation of their comradeshi…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT, Universal, WP.
Used 13 times in crossword archives (1956–2011).