Meanings of rather elegant in English

His manner was rather elegant than good: his speech well-finished and unconstrained.

A large convenient place, and notwithstanding the plainness of the profession rather elegant.

In fact, that's a rather elegant description of whatever it was I was doing.

She speaks quietly, with sentences punctuated only by a persistent, but rather elegant, cough.

And once more poor Ham received a shower of water over his rather elegant suit.

Recently I stumbled across Hive, a rather elegant title game produced by Gen Four Two Games.

That looks rather elegant. He watched the emotions flicker across her face: quiet anger and, finally, resignation.

She gave the child a rather elegant spanking once as a punishment for locking herself in a bathroom.

Tall, dark, and rather elegant, she embraced the shorter, fairer Mary, then held out her hand to me.

A slender young man, rather elegant, with a gay aspect and military bearing, came to shake hands with them.

You get one to charge at you and then step aside and execute a rather elegant swing through with the cape.

It was a large and rather elegant post chariot, as much ornamented as comported with the road, and having a rich blazonry.

He was tall, and rather elegant in appearance, a kind of external beauty which draws most women, and wins admirers in every circle.

There was an easy-chair with a small table near it, and on the table were a silver lamp and some rather elegant trifles.

Needing my afternoon infusion of caffeine, I took a table outside one of the three or four rather elegant cafés scattered among the shops.

Such terms as neuropath and kleptomaniac are often regarded as rather elegant names for contemptible excuses invented by medical men to cover up stealing.