What's the difference between inelegant and neatness?
Inelegant
Definition:
(a.) Not elegant; deficient in beauty, polish, refinement, grave, or ornament; wanting in anything which correct taste requires.
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.