There was a stiffness and inelegance in his address which prepossessed me strongly against him.
Charlie seemed rather pleased than otherwise at my inelegance.
In the act there was the inelegance of one whose feelings are nipped and wishes defeated.
I did not like motor vehicles and had indeed never entered one before, having always maintained their inelegance.
The inelegance of the appellation perhaps explains why the bird has been permitted to retain it for quite a long while unchanged.