inélégance

Definitions of inélégance
  1. noun
    the quality of lacking refinement and good taste
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    antonyms:
    raffinement, élégance
    a refined quality of gracefulness and good taste
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    gaucherie
    the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)
    grossièreté, vulgarité
    the quality of lacking taste and refinement
    rugosité
    an unpolished unrefined quality
    emphase, ostentation, suffisance
    lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
    type of:
    caractéristique, propriété
    an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone
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