inelegance
Noun
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The quality of lacking refinement and good taste (synset 104822552)
is a type of: quality - an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someonesubtypes:
- awkwardness, clumsiness, gracelessness, stiffness - the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)
- dowdiness, drabness, homeliness - having a drab or dowdy quality; lacking stylishness or elegance
- manginess, seediness, shabbiness, sleaziness - a lack of elegance as a consequence of wearing threadbare or dirty clothing
- tweediness - an informal, homely, outdoor look characteristic of those who wear tweeds
- coarseness, commonness, grossness, raunch, vulgarism, vulgarity - the quality of lacking taste and refinement
- crudeness, roughness - an unpolished unrefined quality
- boorishness, uncouthness - inelegance by virtue of being an uncouth boor
- inflation, ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, puffiness, splashiness - lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
- tastelessness - inelegance indicated by a lack of good taste
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