inelegancia

Definitions of inelegancia
  1. noun
    the quality of lacking refinement and good taste
    synonyms: deslucimiento
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    antonyms:
    elegancia
    a refined quality of gracefulness and good taste
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    aturdimiento, chambonada, desgarbo, desmaña, torpeza
    the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)
    cutrería, desaliño, desaseo, despilfarro, ruindad, vileza
    a lack of elegance as a consequence of wearing threadbare or dirty clothing
    bastez, basteza, chabacanada, chabacanería, chocarrería, cursilería, cutrería, grosería, horterada, horterez, mal gusto, ordinariez, plebeyez, ramplonería, rudeza, vulgaridad, vulgarismo
    the quality of lacking taste and refinement
    escabrosidad, grosería, tosquedad
    an unpolished unrefined quality
    cerrilismo, incultura, ramplonería, rispidez, rusticidad, zafiedad
    inelegance by virtue of being an uncouth boor
    ampulosidad, aparatosidad, elación, empaque, hinchazón, magisterio, mirlo, pedantería, pomposidad, prosopopeya, rimbombancia
    lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
    rusticidad
    the quality of being rustic or gauche
    sordidez
    tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar
    charrada, chulería, cursilería, estridencia, guapeza, majeza, relumbro, relumbrón, rimbombancia
    tasteless showiness
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    cualidad
    an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone
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