SuaviloquyToday’s word

inelegant

Inelegant, a.

Etymology: [L. inelegans: cf. F. inélégant. See In- not, and Elegant.]

Not elegant; deficient in beauty, polish, refinement, grave, or ornament; wanting in anything which correct taste requires. What order so contrived as not to mix Tastes, not well joined, inelegant. Milton. It renders style often obscure, always embarrassed and inelegant. Blair.

Shades of meaning

Fernald has no entry of its own for inelegant; he lists it under rustic.

He lists it without comment; the entries above explain its neighbors.