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单词 inelegantly
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inelegantly
adverb
uk
/ɪˈnel.ɪ.ɡənt.li/us
/ˌɪnˈel.ə.ɡənt.li/
in a way that is notattractive,especiallybecause of beingawkwardinmovementormanner:
不雅地；粗俗地
Iturnedtoseehersprawledinelegantly on thefloor.我转过身去，看到她不优雅地瘫躺在地板上。
Heplungedinelegantly into thepool.他毫不优雅地跳进了游泳池。
in a way that is notskilfulorpoliteindealingwith orexpressingsomething:
粗糙地；不雅地；不礼貌地
Shequicklyand inelegantlychangedthesubject.她迅速而不讲究礼貌地改变了话题。
There's been somesortof a - to put it inelegantly -massivescrew-up.出事了，说得难听一点，是全搞砸了！
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  • ThestoolIsatonwobbledand I had toflingout aleginelegantly toregainmybalance.
  • We inelegantlyrodeoursinkingcraftin on thesurfanddraggedit up thebeach.
  • She wasratherinelegantlyknownas "thesausageheiress".
  • Hemanagedtoleteveryoneknowhe was aformerchampionby inelegantlyforcingit into theconversation.
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Not attractive to look at
  • back end
  • be no oil paintingidiom
  • be not much to look atidiom
  • bleakly
  • bleakness
  • chintzy
  • excrescence
  • gopping
  • gracelessly
  • hatchet-faced
  • have a face like the back end of a busidiom
  • hideous
  • hideousness
  • pretty
  • pretty-pretty
  • reptilian
  • scrappily
  • scrappy
  • vulgarity
  • vulgarly
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Inability and awkwardness
Crude and basic
(Definition ofinelegantlyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofinelegantly

inelegantly
One relates to the position of the radiographers, and the other is concerned with the position of the people who are soinelegantly, and inappropriately, called paramedics.
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While we must aim to secure the fullest possible use of land within the conurbations, we must clearly also plan for a great wave of what isinelegantlytermed "overspill".
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Category (a) cases are those which lie in what mayinelegantlybe called the macro-political field.
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Category (a) cases are those that lie... in what mayinelegantlybe called the macro-political field.
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The term may also be used toinelegantlyrefer to a situation in which one speaks out of turn.
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If that is the case then this office is, to put itinelegantly, completely off the mark.
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They are a plan to improve v/hat isinelegantlycalled the infra-structure, but they are not an industrial plan.
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We all want to avoid what is called compendiously butinelegantlycat-and-mouse procedure.
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First, as regards donations, the boundary is set veryinelegantlyin a double negative of, "not less than £5,000".
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Putinelegantly, it is a kind of constitutional "dumbing down".
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The most effective way of doing this is by returning industries to the private sector—"privatisation", as it is somewhatinelegantlycalled.
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There will be more coming along very shortly to take their places when what we ratherinelegantlycall the "bulge" leave school.
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To put it colloquially, ifinelegantly, the purchaser wants to know whether the land he seeks to purchase is under sentence of death.
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We suffer from a disease which has been somewhatinelegantlybut expressively described as stagflation.
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The "bulge", as it has been soinelegantlycalled, will be with us for the next three years.
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