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How to pronounce inelegant
“inelegant” pronunciation in American English
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the inelegant bits, the ugly asymmetries and so forth.
TED
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looked very painful and inelegant and ugly to begin with.
Numberphile
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the term because that just sounds so inelegant, doesn't it?
Lex Fridman
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And you might have thought, well, that's a bit inelegant.
Jakob Foerster
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