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UK
/ɡɹˈeɪsləs/
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[ 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
- Seen straight on, with his bald, skull-like head, wasp waist and fleshless body, he appears graceless and impassive, too frail to survive; his limbs appear too thin to bear the weight of his head and torso.
- Charles Dickens called the graceless, dirty backwater born of controversy, greed, and deceit the “City of Magnificent Intentions.” The Viognier Vendetta
- Had you been less a darling, you would not, perhaps, have been so graceless: But I never in my life saw a cockered favourite come to good. Clarissa Harlowe
- Almost every scene is suffused with an aesthetic that captures the all too familiar feeling of pubescent gracelessness, be it in the close-ups of lips smacking in the throws of burgermunching or the awkward fumblings of sofa sex.
- In fact, she generally looks pretty graceless whenever she moves - a bit like a top-heavy giraffe.
- she moves rather gracelessly
- They bring a sense of confrontation rather then conciliation, belligerence rather than humility and gracelessness rather than gracefulness.
- So when they held dinner-parties Scarlet skimped on the smoked salmon, and Brian rebuked her for her graceless parsimony.
- She made a graceless comment a few days ago, to the effect that she doesn't expect much of a speech, but several hundred Republicans will cheer no matter how mediocre he is.
- It was graceless behaviour that marred his image as a potential leader in 2007.