inelegance

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

INEL'EGANCE INEL'EGANCY, noun [See Inelegant.] Want of elegance; want of beauty or polish in language, composition or manners; want of symmetry or ornament in building; want of delicacy in coloring, etc.
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