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Fair or elegant penmanship.

ELEGANTLY
In a manner to please nice taste; with elegance; with due symmetry; richly.
PENMANSHIP
The use of the pen in writing; the art of writing; style or manner of writing; chirography; as, good or bad penmanship.
ELEGANT
1. Very choice, and hence, pleasing to good taste; characterized by grace, propriety, and refinement, and the absence of every thing offensive; exciting admiration and approbation by symmetry, completeness, freedom from blemish, and the
OVERELEGANT
Too elegant. Johnson.
UNELEGANT
Inelegant.
INELEGANT
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
INELEGANTLY
In an inelegant manner.