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[ UK /ɡɹˈe‍ɪsləs/ ]
[ US /ˈɡɹeɪsɫəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. lacking graciousness
    a totally graceless hostess
  2. lacking social polish
    too gauche to leave the room when the conversation became intimate
    their excellent manners always made me feel gauche
  3. 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.
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  • 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.
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