There are, however, faults and Inelegancies of which foreigners accuse us which we may do well to consider.
"Manners and Social Usages"
Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood
Friendly critics excused some Inelegancies which they thought they found in occasional passages, by taking for granted, as was true, that he had admitted insertions from other hands.
"Burke"
John Morley
The first three volumes had appeared in 1804, the fourth in 1805, and the fifth, which is much the best, in 1807. Republican critics dwelt with no light hand upon the deficiencies of these volumes, and Marshall himself sadly owned that the "Inelegancies" in the first were astonishingly numerous.
"John Marshall and the Constitution A Chronicle of the Supreme Court, Volume 16 In The Chronicles Of America Series"
Edward S. Corwin