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UK
/ɡɹˈeɪsləs/
]
[ US /ˈɡɹeɪsɫəs/ ]
[ US /ˈɡɹeɪsɫəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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lacking graciousness
a totally graceless hostess -
lacking social polish
too gauche to leave the room when the conversation became intimate
their excellent manners always made me feel gauche -
lacking grace; clumsy
his stature low...his bearing ungraceful
a graceless production of the play
How To Use graceless In A Sentence
- He sees no reason to stop now I had spent the previous night galumphing gracelessly up and down the village hall of Strathmiglo, in the heart of the Howe of Fife.
- He was bad-tempered and graceless in defeat.
- Tash bit her lip, feeling her words were graceless and awkward, when her gratitude was so much more.
- Such a get-up might de-throne me once and for all, or at the very least earn a few "graceless" points with the neighbor who thinks I'm so stuffy, so reine-like. French Word-A-Day:
- The result was a graceless and prosaic performance that undersold her prodigious talents. Times, Sunday Times
- The task fell to Mr Harris to deliver this bad news. It was gracelessly done.
- When luck is something you inherit or buy, grumbling at the complaints of the less fortunate is graceless, to say the least.
- Raid hard drive into basidiospore and nigerien into warrigal, and contradictorily all and had bacterioidal all snakeroot for his palsy, had articulately for an brassica nacimiento gracelessly the slowness, a aleppo unrepentantly. Rational Review
- What other cosmic reasoning can explain this insufferable, graceless production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream now playing at the Poor Alex?
- He was tall and lean in the angular, graceless mountaineer style.