ungraceful

[ UK /ʌnɡɹˈe‍ɪsfə‍l/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. lacking grace; clumsy
    his stature low...his bearing ungraceful
    a graceless production of the play
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How To Use ungraceful In A Sentence

  • In its movement it is awkward and ungraceful, though swift and savage as a pike.
  • She did it ungracefully, though, with a scowl and a half-shrug. BEHINDLINGS
  • Ungracefully slipping and sliding knee-deep in dark, sticky mud is not food gathering at its most glamorous, yet local people have been collecting marsh samphire between June and September for generations, wherever it is common but especially in East Anglia.
  • She certainly was an odd-looking little creature in the short tight wincey dress she had worn from the asylum, below which her thin legs seemed ungracefully long. Anne of Green Gables
  • There are two cocker spaniels in the back, and a young woman with a most ungraceful air.
  • I need not add that my card is printed in German text, Paul Fleming, and that time has brought to me a not ungraceful, though a sometimes practically retardating, circumference. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873
  • Sera sighed and sat ungracefully onto the stool.
  • That most people walk in an ungraceful, ungainly and awkward manner with a forward inclination of the body does not mean that it is the normal way of walking.
  • Dereth felt clumsy and ungraceful next to the two companions, as though they belonged to an exclusive club that he could never join.
  • If this is almost the series's swansong, it's a rather ungraceful one. Times, Sunday Times
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