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ungracefully

ADVERB
  1. without grace; rigidly
    they moved woodenly

How To Use ungracefully In A Sentence

  • And then playfully he shunts me with his shoulder, making me step ungracefully into the wall so that even the waiter standing aside holding a stack of dirty plates has to suppress a smile.
  • It turns out that my pronated feet (they roll inward), which I always thought had no consequence other than my walking a little ungracefully, are a health hazard. Leora Tanenbaum: Feet Are A Feminist Issue
  • She could not do anything ungracefully, but that did not prevent her improving upon nature a bit, when she reached forth and deftly snuffed the red wick from the midst of the yellow flame. THE SCORN OF WOMEN
  • The upper skirt was tied so lightly back that it was impossible to take a long step, and the under one was so loaded with plaited frills that it "wobbled" no other word will express it ungracefully, both fore and aft. Eight Cousins
  • He ran to me, his shoes clamoring on the floor ungracefully, as if these few strides towards me would forever determine the rest of his life.
  • Out of the window, I could see Jonah jogging ungracefully towards our block, all elbows and knees in a tragically unhip white vest, and I realised I'd had a lucky escape.
  • 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
  • Sera sighed and sat ungracefully onto the stool.
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