The Mets, who often played down to the level of the hapless Dodgers over the three games, yesterday scored in inelegant and unusual ways, as well as in the clutch.

An inelegant way of putting it, but essentially true.

Outside their windows, the mobile city could be seen trundling on its inelegant way, drinking egonicity from the white polyhedrons.

Mr. Tanaka had an inelegant, gravelly, sometimes curt way of talking that helped to make him an outsider in the upper levels of the Japanese Government.

Murdering her would be such an inelegant way to stop us.

Though all its elements work together, they often do so in a clunky, inelegant way.

("You have a way of destroying people's tender feelings, kiddo" is the inelegant but insightful way one admirer puts it.)

It was an inelegant but expedient way to end his life instead of succumbing slowly to the cancer that had begun in his colon and spread to his lungs.

The new code written at this stage is not perfect, and may, for example, pass the test in an inelegant way.

At this level, winning and losing are often determined in less-muscular and inelegant ways.