What's the difference between homeliness and inelegance?

Homeliness


Definition:

  • (n.) Domesticity; care of home.
  • (n.) Familiarity; intimacy.
  • (n.) Plainness; want of elegance or beauty.
  • (n.) Coarseness; simplicity; want of refinement; as, the homeliness of manners, or language.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For all his intensity, he has a warm, informal midwestern homeliness.
  • (2) From this it might be extrapolated that with this latest appointment, the board at RBS and the financial policymaking establishment are signalling a new direction for the bank: away from the toxic wheeler-dealing of the Fred the Shred years and towards a new, homelier business.
  • (3) But I don’t see he’s unapproachable.” His campaign is seemingly mounting a belated bid to cultivate a homelier image.

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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