THESAURUS
Gongoresque, Gongoristic, Marinistic, affected, allusive, artificial, behaved, behavioral, behaviored, behaviorist, behavioristic, conscious, contrived, demeanored, elaborate, elaborated, euphuistic, figurative, figured, flowery, high-hat, highfalutin, histrionic, hoity-toity, hyperelegant, hypocritical, insincere, la-di-da, maniere, metaphorical, ornamented, overacted, overdone, overelaborate, overelegant, overnice, overrefined, pompous, posed, precieuse, precieux, precious, pretentious, pseudo, referential, stagy, stiff, stilted, studied, theatrical, trolatitious, tropological, unnatural
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Inelegance
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inelegance, stiffness, unlettered Muse, barbarism, slang, solecism, mannerism, euphuism, fustian, cacophony, words that break the teeth, words that dislocate the jaw, marinism, inelegant, graceless, ungraceful, harsh, abrupt, dry, stiff, cramped, formal, guinde, forced, labored, artificial,
mannered, ponderous, awkward, uncourtly, unpolished, turgid, affected, euphuistic, barbarous, uncouth, grotesque, rude, crude, halting, offensive to ears polite, Spoken Language.