单词 | inelegantly |
释义 | inelegantly, adv.|ɪnˈɛlɪgəntlɪ| [f. prec. + -ly2.] In an inelegant manner; ungracefully, clumsily.
1667South Serm. (1698) III. x. 477 He was not so much buryed, as..deposited in the Grave for a small inconsiderable space; So that even in this respect he may not inelegantly be said to have tasted of Death. 1779–81Johnson L.P., Milton Wks. II. 154 Comus..is a drama in the epick style, inelegantly splendid, and tediously instructive. 1860Emerson Cond. Life viii. (1861) 169 The cat and the deer cannot move or sit inelegantly. 1871Ruskin Fors Clav. I. iv. 20 We fight inelegantly as well as expensively, with machines instead of bow and spear. |

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