What's the difference between clumsiness and inelegance?

Clumsiness


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality of being clumsy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In both, objective aggravation occurred in three or more steps over four days, progressing from minor finger clumsiness to total paralysis of the arm.
  • (2) Since she was 25-year-old, she had had insomnia which accompanied by choked feelings, palpitations, clumsiness of hands and anxiety.
  • (3) Salmond and his finance secretary, John Swinney, have pushed for Scotland to be given control over corporation tax, excise duties and greater borrowing powers in the new bill, but those measures were rejected as ill thought out and clumsy by the UK government and Labour.
  • (4) The problem is that, whilst severely affected children can be readily recognized, identification of mildly and moderately clumsy children is difficult.
  • (5) Clumsy US tactics and policies exacerbated a deteriorating situation.
  • (6) Several lines from the 1984 song were heavily criticised here and in Africa for being clumsy and patronising, including the one about no rivers flowing in Africa – the continent of the Nile, Congo and Niger.
  • (7) Ethanol impaired performance in most objective tests and produced clumsiness, muzziness, and mental slowness, but little drowsiness.
  • (8) The unfairly maligned camel is a model of sleek, practical and elegant design compared with the clumsy creature the coalition has produced.
  • (9) The arcane wiring when electricity came along, the subsequent clumsy rewiring; the cheap flat conversion in the 1960s; the constant saga of patch and mend from occupants who never have the money or vision to remake the whole thing from scratch - all this, and more, was paralleled on the WCML on an enormous scale.
  • (10) It is difficult to comprehend the logic of expecting improvements in this agenda while withdrawing half a billion dollars in funding to many service agencies, and leaving them poised precariously at the mercy of a clumsy and poorly executed “advancement” strategy.
  • (11) DZ but not O 60 was reported to have caused lethargy and clumsiness during subchronic treatment.
  • (12) A nine year-old girl admitted to our hospital complaining of clumsiness of hands and walking, disability of reading, headache and vomiting.
  • (13) Her main project is new girl Tai (the late Brittany Murphy) who arrives at school as a clumsy, unconfident "ugly duckling" ripe for making over – allowing the film to indulge in that wonderful 80s teen movie trope: the dressing up montage.
  • (14) Clinical syndromes were classified according to Fisher's criteria into pure motor hemiparesis (PM), sensorimotor stroke (SM) and ataxic hemiparesis (AH) including dysarthria clumsy hand syndrome.
  • (15) Observations by parents and teachers rated the clumsy children inferior to their controls in writing, sporting ability and clumsiness.
  • (16) Even if the move seemed dictatorial in the short term, it served to enshrine a constitution that in the long-term actually curtails Morsi's power – which to the Brotherhood makes his actions well-intentioned, if clumsy.
  • (17) The children with learning disabilities were divided into two groups--"clumsy" and "nonclumsy"--based on their scores on the motor impairment test.
  • (18) Fulham were furious in 2012 when Liverpool's attempt to take Clint Dempsey from them saw the Merseyside club deliver clumsy bulletins.
  • (19) Analysis of the data indicated that, as expected, the clumsy children with learning disabilities scored significantly lower than the children without learning disabilities (the control group).
  • (20) Abnormal clumsiness in otherwise normal children has often been associated with both perceptual and motor defects, but the cause of this problem remains unclear.

Inelegance


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Inelegancy

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I remember most vividly, as the prey was seized, how one lazuline wing fell outwards like a flag; the hobby's wings seemed to chop and paddle and there was this momentary drama-less inelegance to it, then the falcon swept the victim back into the peerless symmetry of its going, and all was done.
  • (2) Bad scientific writing involves more than stylistic inelegance: it is often the outward and visible form of an inward confusion of thought.
  • (3) Link to video I can’t entirely explain how and why she grew – suddenly, inelegantly, cartoonishly – from highly able political staffer rushing between engagements to talisman.
  • (4) Later, we feed inelegantly on lapas (dollar-sized grilled limpets) swimming in garlic butter at lively Garrouchada (meals around €14pp plus wine, Rua Dr Luis Bettencourt), in Vila do Porto, Santa Maria’s three-road “capital”.
  • (5) A young woman in a good health noticed the occurrence of inelegant wrinkled plaques on her trunk and limbs.
  • (6) Dr James Thompson , senior lecturer in psychology at University College London, said Boris had been "inelegant" in his choice of words.
  • (7) Although the modern, elegant antifungal agents with their complex vehicles are quite effective, one sometimes becomes nostalgic for the old-fashioned, inelegant but effective Whitfield's ointment (salicylic acid and benzoic acid) with its simple, nonsensitizing petrolatum base.
  • (8) Some central banks might even be forced to pump more funds into their economies through those inelegantly titled quantitative-easing programmes just to keep inflation from sinking again into negative territory.
  • (9) I danced around with design, coming up with the simplest and least inelegant solutions, and that’s where we’ve been for 30 years now.
  • (10) Hollande said Sarkozy's targeting of his partner in the campaign was "inelegant".
  • (11) British voters, the business community and potential students from abroad are all more intelligent than last week's inelegant volte-face gave them credit for.
  • (12) This inelegant compromise is what multilateral progress on climate change looks like.
  • (13) Said corner causes a little panic, with Kah preparing to force it goalwards when an RSL boot gets it clear, slightly inelegantly.
  • (14) Alan never liked to exert himself in the field or throw himself around, possibly because he thought it would look inelegant.
  • (15) However, this procedure is not without difficulties, and the usual technique of employing various crushing clamps for division of the colo-rectal septum is inelegant, inconvenient and uncertain.
  • (16) When, as seems almost inevitable, the building of the Libyan peace starts getting untidy and inelegant to watch, let us remember that when we did it our way in Iraq and Afghanistan , it wasn't exactly a success either.
  • (17) Until he does, one can’t really imagine the American president particularly swayed by remarks that conform to the pattern of Abbott’s international trip – of yet more empty rhetoric, more inelegant diplomacy and yet another awkward moment for a burgeoning national cringe.
  • (18) • At a hastily arranged press conference at 10pm ET last night, Romney said the video had caught him speaking off the cuff and inelegantly .
  • (19) Thompson, co-author of Cognitive Capitalism, said: "What Boris Johnson has done is inelegantly describe things which in fact do seem to be true: intelligence, however you assess it, is predictive.
  • (20) "Believe me, I've seen it before, 2,000 times," says Juan Manuel, as I haul myself inelegantly into the saddle.

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