(a.) Very choice, and hence, pleasing to good taste; characterized by grace, propriety, and refinement, and the absence of every thing offensive; exciting admiration and approbation by symmetry, completeness, freedom from blemish, and the like; graceful; tasteful and highly attractive; as, elegant manners; elegant style of composition; an elegant speaker; an elegant structure.
(a.) Exercising a nice choice; discriminating beauty or sensitive to beauty; as, elegant taste.
Example Sentences:
(1) Today, she wears an elegant salmon-pink blouse with white trousers and a long, pale pink coat.
(2) Rather than an off-plan Oxshott monster-mansion, he moved his family to an elegant Eaton Terrace townhouse in south-west London.
(3) She followed that with a job at Bibendum – she still talks of Simon Hopkinson, "such an elegant cook, so particular and clean and efficient", with deep reverence – and another at Roscoff in Northern Ireland.
(4) It's typically sober and elegant, and Cotillard excels in a nervy, vulnerable role.
(5) Yet, in spite of this restriction, the 2-mu plasmid of yeast has evolved an elegant mechanism which can allow it to rapidly amplify its copy number without initiating multiple rounds of replication.
(6) It is readily expressed as clinical sensitivity and specificity, and elegantly represented by the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve.
(7) And there is plenty of beauty in London - seeing Parliament Square in the snow, the dome of St Paul's rising above the City, the simple perfection of a Georgian terrace or the quietly elegant streets of Mayfair.
(8) The portion of my sample prawn orzo was a modest but polished plate of food, the dense bisque and silky grains of pasta elegantly punctuated by small bursts of tart, sweet semi-dried tomato.
(9) He believed that western liberal democracy, with its elegant balance of liberty and equality, could not be bettered; that its attainment would lead to a general calming in world affairs; and that in the long run it would be the only credible game in town.
(10) Total-Body Scanner is rather an elegant method but a discontinuous one.
(11) Foundas also praises Magic's photography, calling its "elegantly choreographed traveling master shots bathed in natural light" a key part of "one of his most beautifully made films."
(12) It is the latest in a series of sculpture commissions to occupy the elegant neoclassical galleries, which stretch back 86 metres from the museum's main entrance on the banks of the Thames.
(13) Sean Ingle Wimbledon No one has broken Roger Federer’s serve at these championships, let alone taken a set, and the appreciative midsummer murmurs from No1 Court as the seven-times Wimbledon champion elegantly dissected Tommy Robredo suggested they believe he retains the game to win a record eighth title.
(14) The intricate wood carving, the elegant furniture, the panelled walls, the grand entrance hall and the cantilevered stairs are undeniably impressive.
(15) Whenever I read Philip French's elegant and thoughtful criticism, I felt like I was in the company of someone who not only loved cinema but who felt a sense of responsibility toward it as an art form.
(16) It was not an elegant parting, as Christine Bleakley was pushed out by the BBC on Sunday afternoon , leaving ITV to scramble a contract together for her to sign two hours later.
(17) It positioned Kelela as a significant new vocalist, her phrasing indebted to pop but somehow elegantly haunting.
(18) The unfairly maligned camel is a model of sleek, practical and elegant design compared with the clumsy creature the coalition has produced.
(19) The idea that huge, intractable social issues such as sexism and racism could be affected in such simple ways had a powerful intuitive appeal, and hinted at the possibility of equally simple, elegant solutions.
(20) The Elegance room – it sounds like a department of Harrods – sets the grand social portraits of Rubens alongside artists they “influenced”.
Trashy
Definition:
(superl.) Like trash; containing much trash; waste; rejected; worthless; useless; as, a trashy novel.
Example Sentences:
(1) But I think this isn’t a problem only kids face – we’ve become a country of trashy readers.
(2) Prince's art appears to celebrate trashiness and low-rent style.
(3) His group of bourgeois friends, aged over 60, (some of whom are inspired by real writers, intellectuals and artists), resist by attending trashy parties; it's a generation incapable of growing up.
(4) Could Fifty Shades of Grey, with a smart female director at the helm, usher in a new era of movies for lusty, grown-up women, even if its trashy reputation and wayward use of cable ties might not seem to be the fertile ground from which this might spring?
(5) Contributors are awarded badges – "LOL", "Trashy", "Fail" – if their article inspires a certain number of responses.
(6) The letter to Carusone hints at Trump's litigious past, urging him to "look no further than former Miss Pennsylvania Sheena Monnin, who just last week found herself on the wrong side of a $5m judgment in favour of Mr Trump after falsely stating in the press that the Trump-owned Miss USA pageant was both "fixed" and "trashy".
(7) She has continued to work since then, though, but mostly small parts in TV shows and trashy horror films.
(8) That they are crass, brash and trashy goes without saying.
(9) There's something of the old-fashioned showman about Hytner: highbrow and lowbrow isn't a distinction he values (he claims to enjoy Diana Krall as much as Haydn, and admits a secret affection for trashy pop).
(10) He made every trashy costume seem as natural as a good suit and, for all his life, he seemed carried forward by the odd mixture of yearning and fatalism that prompted Humbert Humbert.
(11) Along that way, so much of her early trashiness was forgiven by the public so that at her death, at last – for hospital was one of her long-running roles or duties – there is much grief and sorrow for her.
(12) Considering illustrations to be trashy, he set a simple thee-part grid, with colour coded bands – orange for fiction, green for crime, blue for biographies and pink for travel and adventure – while text was set in crisp Gill Sans and strictly marshalled into the centre.
(13) Laurie Penny's wonderful, spirited defence of the novel certainly found aspects to like "because there were, amongst some terrifically trashy bits of girly romance and some eye-watering blow-job scenarios, a few quite good, quite detailed descriptions of fucking written from the point of view of a woman who seemed to be really enjoying herself".
(14) I can give anyone a hard time.” She once lectured Kentucky senator and 2016 candidate Rand Paul over his penchant for arguing with female reporters, and memorably asked another White House hopeful, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, to clarify why he thought it was trashy for women to swear in public.
(15) This seems a pretty improbable form of entertainment for the most controversial woman in the history of rock, but she claims to be a big fan of trashy British TV, particularly if it involves Katie Price, with whom Love seems slightly obsessed: she keeps sending Price Tweets; alas, to no response.
(16) I think a lot of people have assumed that the SF was the trashy but high-selling stuff I had to churn out in order to keep a roof over my head while I wrote the important, serious, non-genre literary novels.
(17) Taken as a whole, the work of Noble and Webster reveals a fascination for trashy sex and sentimentalised love, often mediated through fly-by-night pop culture, and an equal obsession with cycles of decay and decomposition.
(18) The after-hours counterpart to G-A-Y (G-A-Y Late) has quickly replaced the Joiners Arms as London’s trashy gay bar of choice, where everyone is invited.
(19) It ranges from the tragic (Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar ) to the quasi-trashy (Rona Jaffe's The Best of Everything ) to the comic (Ruth McKenney's delightful but, sadly, half-forgotten My Sister Eileen ) to the bohemian (Mary McCarthy's The Company She Keeps ).
(20) "The biggest misconception people have is that quality is all that matters," Peretti says, in an admission likely to give further ammunition to those who think the site is trashy and downmarket.