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Inelegance

Alt. of Inelegancy

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Narrower term 19

Clumsiness 76% connected

The quality of being clumsy.

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Coarseness 76% connected

The quality or state of being coarse; roughness; inelegance; vulgarity; grossness; as, coarseness of food, texture, manners, or language.

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Commonness 76% connected

State or quality of being common or usual; as, the commonness of sunlight.

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Crudeness 76% connected

A crude, undigested, or unprepared state; rawness; unripeness; immatureness; unfitness for a destined use or purpose; as, the crudeness of iron ore;…

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Grossness 76% connected

The state or quality of being gross; thickness; corpulence; coarseness; shamefulness.

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Homeliness 76% connected

Domesticity; care of home.

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Inflation 76% connected

The act or process of inflating, or the state of being inflated, as with air or gas; distention; expansion; enlargement.

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Manginess 76% connected

The condition or quality of being mangy.

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Ostentation 76% connected

The act of ostentating or of making an ambitious display; unnecessary show; pretentious parade; -- usually in a detractive sense.

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Pomposity 76% connected

The quality or state of being pompous; pompousness.

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Puffiness 76% connected

The quality or state of being puffy.

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Raunch 76% connected

See Ranch.

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Roughness 76% connected

The quality or state of being rough.

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Seediness 76% connected

The quality or state of being seedy, shabby, or worn out; a state of wretchedness or exhaustion.

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Shabbiness 76% connected

The quality or state of being sghabby.

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Sleaziness 76% connected

Quality of being sleazy.

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Stiffness 76% connected

The quality or state of being stiff; as, the stiffness of cloth or of paste; stiffness of manner; stiffness of character.

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Vulgarism 76% connected

Grossness; rudeness; vulgarity.

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Vulgarity 76% connected

The quality or state of being vulgar; mean condition of life; the state of the lower classes of society.

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Quality 76% connected

The condition of being of such and such a sort as distinguished from others; nature or character relatively considered, as of goods; character; sort;…

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Inelegant 74% connected

Not elegant; deficient in beauty, polish, refinement, grave, or ornament; wanting in anything which correct taste requires.

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Inelegant 74% connected

Not elegant; deficient in beauty, polish, refinement, grave, or ornament; wanting in anything which correct taste requires.

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