inelegance
121solecism — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. error, lapse, slip, blunder; grammatical error; barbarism, faux pas, social error, impropriety; incongruity, mistake. See inelegance. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. misuse, barbarism, impropriety, blunder,… …
122stiff — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. rigid, inflexible, firm, non fluid; strong, brisk; difficult, hard; severe, excessive; formal, unreserved; awkward, stilted. See hardness, severity, affectation, inelegance, restraint, pride.Ant.,… …
123stilted — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. formal, stiff; unnatural, affected, mannered, prim, stuffy; inflated, florid, flowery, pedantic. See affectation, inelegance. Ant., informal, natural. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. pompous, affected,… …
124tasteless — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. insipid, flat; inelegant; inept, clumsy, vulgar, savorless, unappetizing. See insipidity, vulgarity, inelegance. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Lacking flavor] Syn. unsavory, dull, bland, unseasoned,… …
125uncouth — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. boorish, rude, crude, common, vulgar, uncultivated; ill mannered, clumsy; strange, unusual; awkward, gauche, ungraceful. See vulgarity, inelegance. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. ungainly, clumsy,… …
126undignified — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. discreditable, inelegant, ludicrous, awkward, gauche; mean, degrading; indecorous, ill bred. See inelegance, vulgarity. II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. unseemly, beneath one s dignity, degrading,… …
127unrefined — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. unpurified, crude, raw, natural, native; unfastidious, uncultivated, rude, coarse, inelegant, vulgar, common. See vulgarity, inelegance, ignorance. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. coarse, vulgar,… …
128vulgarity — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Bad taste Nouns 1. vulgarity, vulgarism; barbarism; offense, bad taste; inelegance, indelicacy; gaucherie, ill breeding, discourtesy, incivility; coarseness, indecorum, boorishness; rowdyism,… …
