| 词汇 | inelegantly |
| 释义 | inelegantly adverb uk /ɪˈnel.ɪ.ɡənt.li/ us /ˌɪnˈel.ə.ɡənt.li/ in a way that is not attractive, especially because of being awkward in movement or manner: 不雅地;粗俗地 I turned to see her sprawled inelegantly on the floor.我转过身去，看到她不优雅地瘫躺在地板上。 He plunged inelegantly into the pool.他毫不优雅地跳进了游泳池。 in a way that is not skilful or polite in dealing with or expressing something: 粗糙地;不雅地;不礼貌地 She quickly and inelegantly changed the subject.她迅速而不讲究礼貌地改变了话题。 There's been some sort of a - to put it inelegantly - massive screw-up.出事了，说得难听一点，是全搞砸了！ See inelegant The stool I sat on wobbled and I had to fling out a leg inelegantly to regain my balance. We inelegantly rode our sinking craft in on the surf and dragged it up the beach. She was rather inelegantly known as "the sausage heiress". He managed to let everyone know he was a former champion by inelegantly forcing it into the conversation. Not attractive to look at back end be no oil paintingidiom be not much to look atidiom bleakly bleakness gopping gracelessly have a face like the back end of a busidiom hideous hideousness putridly reptilian scrappily scrappy stolid unpretty unshapely unsightly vulgarity vulgarly You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Inability and awkwardness Crude and basic Examples of inelegantlyinelegantly One relates to the position of the radiographers, and the other is concerned with the position of the people who are so inelegantly, and inappropriately, called paramedics. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 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 is inelegantly termed "overspill". From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Category (a) cases are those which lie in what may inelegantly be called the macro-political field. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Category (a) cases are those that lie... in what may inelegantly be called the macro-political field. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The term may also be used to inelegantly refer to a situation in which one speaks out of turn. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. If that is the case then this office is, to put it inelegantly, completely off the mark. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English They are a plan to improve v/hat is inelegantly called the infra-structure, but they are not an industrial plan. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We all want to avoid what is called compendiously but inelegantly cat-and-mouse procedure. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 First, as regards donations, the boundary is set very inelegantly in a double negative of, "not less than £5,000". From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Put inelegantly, it is a kind of constitutional "dumbing down". From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The most effective way of doing this is by returning industries to the private sector—"privatisation", as it is somewhat inelegantly called. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There will be more coming along very shortly to take their places when what we rather inelegantly call the "bulge" leave school. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 To put it colloquially, if inelegantly, the purchaser wants to know whether the land he seeks to purchase is under sentence of death. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We suffer from a disease which has been somewhat inelegantly but expressively described as stagflation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The "bulge", as it has been so inelegantly called, will be with us for the next three years. 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