How To Use Graceless In A Sentence
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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.
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Charles Dickens called the graceless, dirty backwater born of controversy, greed, and deceit the “City of Magnificent Intentions.”
The Viognier Vendetta
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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
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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.
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In fact, she generally looks pretty graceless whenever she moves - a bit like a top-heavy giraffe.
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she moves rather gracelessly
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They bring a sense of confrontation rather then conciliation, belligerence rather than humility and gracelessness rather than gracefulness.
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So when they held dinner-parties Scarlet skimped on the smoked salmon, and Brian rebuked her for her graceless parsimony.
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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.
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It was graceless behaviour that marred his image as a potential leader in 2007.
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The result was a graceless and prosaic performance that undersold her prodigious talents.
Times, Sunday Times
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a graceless production of the play
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She illustrates this with a breezy account of his graceless behaviour towards her family.
Times, Sunday Times
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Systems more numerous than dactyls and spondees in Classic verse, patent putters outnumbered only by howlers in Oxford responsions, bear witness to this graceless statement.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-03-20
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I mumbled something about Paris, Rome, and Venice and immediately felt graceless and ashamed.
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This image, in turn, stood in stark opposition to that of the deformed, graceless, debilitated scoliotic girl and to that of the languid, listless, and useless conspicuous consumptive.
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His first attempt was a graceless superscraper like a giant stick of celery.
Times, Sunday Times
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I really wanted to use the word graceless), I slept beside him in the pediatric ward for the first time since he was born, I orchestrated (felt more like moving mountains) to get this EEG this week, instead of in February.
Autism Hub
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He is that familar bugaboo of Jack's, a clubman and a society man, "the sort that grace social functions and utter inanities with a charm and unction which are indescribable; the sort that talk big, and cry over a toothache; the sort that put more hell into a woman's life by marrying her than can the most graceless libertine that ever browsed in forbidden pastures.
“There be things greater than our wisdom, beyond our justice.”
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Meanwhile in Cardiff, having rejected Hadid, they have built a graceless hulk called the Millennium Stadium right in the city centre, with lottery money.
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And how sone that ever thei war within the toune, thei war apprehended, and upoun the morne send all three to the Black Nesse, whare thei remaned so long as that it pleased the Cardinallis graceless Grace, and that was till that the band of manrent and of service, sett some of thame at libertie.
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)
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Though Thomas received much criticism and admitted later that the graceless exit was unsportsman-like, Thomas has never publicly apologized.
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They wept over it as they sang it, the graceless young scamps who had all broken their mothers 'prides, and I sang with them, and wept with them, and luxuriated in the pathos and the tragedy of it, and struggled to make glimmering inebriated generalisations on life and romance.
Chapter 16
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In fact, she generally looks pretty graceless whenever she moves - a bit like a top-heavy giraffe.
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Like ither menseless graceless brutes. [unmannerly] 'An neist my yowie, silly thing, [next]
Robert Burns How To Know Him
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The deliveryman was a close friend, the half-hated Bernard Weinstein who, with typical gracelessness, mumbled their names at the floor, “Enrique — Margaret.
‘A Happy Marriage’
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Unlike the graceless modern architecture that is springing up all over the place, an 80-year-old cellar provides instant ambience.
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Elvis was a sorry sight: ruff bloodied and his resplendent tail replaced with a graceless pink knob.
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For a poor and graceless scribbler to feel some degree of envy at the "plenteous fatness" of Mr. H.'s purse is extremely natural.
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The French in his whole language hath not one word that hath his accent in the last syllable saving two, called antepenultima, and little more hath the Spanish; and therefore very gracelessly may they use dactyls.
The Defense of Poesy
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The task fell to Mr Harris to deliver this bad news. It was gracelessly done.
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But it would be brutish and graceless to spurn what is meant as a token of friendship.
Times, Sunday Times
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Brash, graceless and ignorant, she's all the things that middle England hates and fears from inner-city working-class Britain’.
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I should never object to calling a graceless duke Tour Grace: nor to praying for a villariously bad monarch as our most religious and gracious King (I know quite well, small critic, that religious is an absurd mistranslation: but let us take the liturgy in the sense in which ninety-nine out of every hundred who hear it understand it): for it seems to me that the daily recurring phrases are something ever suggesting what mankind have a right to expect from those in eminent station; and a kindly determination to believe that such are at least endeavoring to be what they ought.
The Recreations of a Country Parson
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From a nail in one corner of the room hung a red and white zarape, a bridle, one of those graceless bits which would wrench the mouth of the wildest horse to agony, and a sombrero.
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker
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MATT: OK, here's a pic of one graceless austringer and his lowly hawk...
Archive 2006-08-01
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The deliveryman was a close friend, the half-hated Bernard Weinstein who, with typical gracelessness, mumbled their names at the floor, Enrique—Margaret.
A Happy Marriage
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It was a massive, graceless house.
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‘Aye, the good princess is a graceless, vexing little imp! ‘said the woman.’
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He was tall and lean in the angular, graceless mountaineer style.
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Needless to say, anyone shown to be a member of the former camp is depicted as being vapid, graceless, and generally without any redeeming values, while those in the latter group are kind, intelligent, and well-adjusted.
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He dropped gracelessly into a chair opposite her.
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But suddenly, the difference between the overwhelming beauty of the tiger and the graceless body of the decaying fly seem no longer.
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He is not a bad dancer - his sweeping candelabra arms and rapid footwork bring nuggets of pleasure - but at times he is oddly graceless, his long arms and toned torso mismatched by a pair of surprisingly stubby wee legs.
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He is instinctively suspicious and graceless even in a determinedly soft interview.
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Blessed are the geeks and the graceless for they shall inherit the earth.
Times, Sunday Times
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All the King's Men let its protagonist, a charismatic and power hungry politician who loses all restraint, grow into his detestability, and Willy Stark devolves into the mire of corruption gracelessly.
DVD Times
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Worst of all is the disastrous family his daughter is about to marry into, a graceless mob of halfwits headed by a foul-mouthed virago.
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The writing is graceless but the story is mesmerising.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is no age, not even youth, that excuses or condones such graceless disregard for the paths walked by our fellow man and I fear no amount of ‘education’ will shine a light in the minds of such fools.
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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?
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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
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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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The task fell to Mr Harris to deliver this bad news. It was gracelessly done.
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The result was a graceless and prosaic performance that undersold her prodigious talents.
Times, Sunday Times
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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:
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Tash bit her lip, feeling her words were graceless and awkward, when her gratitude was so much more.
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He was bad-tempered and graceless in defeat.
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This seemed to be the real Frank, grumpy, graceless, self-pitying and desperate to get away from his wife and kids.
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They are scientific rationalists, and thus for Americans already graceless and uncharismatic.
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She couldn't stand his blunt, graceless manner.
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One knee had bent, the right leg now lying awkwardly T-shaped, the wrinkled sole of her right foot against the side of the left knee, in a kind of graceless parody of ballet.
The Hunter
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A sectional drawing by Tatham shows the rather graceless inner facade to the courtyard of the new wing, which contained an entrance archway and porter's lodge on the ground floor, and picture gallery above.
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To bicker senselessly and be sore losers is as pathetic as it is graceless.
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The porter's speech disappears, for example; and Malcolm is at least as ugly and graceless as the tyrant he replaces.
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Movies made with the full intention of shining during the autumn Academy Awards selection season often come across as graceless, lumbering creatures - disjointed messes that fall victim to their own pomposity and presumptuousness.
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But his insulting treatment of a key ally shows him to be irresponsible, graceless and obsessively bent on winning office at all costs.
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To bicker senselessly and be sore losers is as pathetic as it is graceless.
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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.
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In reality, we are so incensed at the ungrateful treatment we have received and the graceless way in which it has been done that we have withdrawn our support.
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The story moves to a graceless rhythm of awkward silences and misjudged social interactions.
Times, Sunday Times
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They're graceless, unrewarding, and seemingly deliberately make it almost impossible for anyone to want to keep on trying to help them for long.
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And given Senator Clinton's ill-advised speech Tuesday night, I don't think any Clinton supporter should be talking about "graceless" behavior.
Poll: Hillary's Favorability Rating Among Blacks Dropped 26 Points
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Like ither menseless graceless brutes. [unmannerly] 'An neist my yowie, silly thing, [next]
Robert Burns How To Know Him
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She swam with a graceless stroke.
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a totally graceless hostess
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I wanted to simply disappear; I must have sounded so graceless and uncivilized.