[ adj ] lacking in refinement or grace or good taste <adj.all>
Inelegant \In*el"e*gant\, a. [L. inelegans: cf. F. in['e]l['e]gant. See {In-} not, and {Elegant}.] Not elegant; deficient in beauty, polish, refinement, grave, or ornament; wanting in anything which correct taste requires.
What order so contrived as not to mix Tastes, not well joined, inelegant. --Milton.
It renders style often obscure, always embarrassed and inelegant. --Blair.
Michael Dukakis has "Sky Pig." That inelegant and unofficial name has stuck as the campaign's handle for the Democratic presidential nominee's chartered campaign jet.
Those inelegant New York tones are part of the Blanc-Warner Bros. trademark.
'Unthinkable, impolite, inelegant to the point of caricature.
But by its own yardstick the British government will be doing a great deal more than its fair share. It has been an inelegant U-turn.
Hence Thursday night's gala at Covent Garden, London, under the inelegant title 'Welcome back St. Petersburg.' Galas, by their charitable nature - generosity from artists as from patrons -defy criticism.