Noun
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the quality of lacking refinement and good taste
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elegance a refined quality of gracefulness and good taste; "she conveys an aura of elegance and gentility"
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quality an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone; "the quality of mercy is not strained"--Shakespeare
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gracelessness,
clumsiness,
awkwardness,
stiffness an unpleasant lack of grace in carriage or form or movement or expression
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dowdiness,
drabness,
homeliness having a drab or dowdy quality; lacking stylishness or elegance
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manginess,
seediness,
shabbiness,
sleaziness a lack of elegance as a consequence of wearing threadbare or dirty clothing
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tweediness an informal, homely, outdoor look characteristic of those who wear tweeds
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grossness,
raunch,
vulgarity,
vulgarism,
coarseness,
commonness the quality of lacking taste and refinement
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crudeness,
roughness an unpolished unrefined quality; "the crudeness of frontier dwellings depressed her"
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uncouthness,
boorishness inelegance by virtue of being an uncouth boor
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ostentatiousness,
pomposity,
pompousness,
splashiness,
pretentiousness,
puffiness,
ostentation,
inflation the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth)
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