How To Use Ungracefulness In A Sentence
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A cheerful wood-fire blazed in the capacious hearth; a little at one side an old-fashioned table, with richly-carved legs, was placed -- destined, no doubt, to receive the supper, for which preparations were going forward; and ranged with exact regularity, stood the tall-backed chairs, whose ungracefulness was more than counterbalanced by their comfort.
The Purcell Papers, Volume II
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Nevertheless so clumsy a beau, that thou seemest to me to owe thyself a double spite, making thy ungracefulness appear the more ungraceful, by thy remarkable tawdriness, when thou art out of mourning.
Clarissa Harlowe
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A cheerful wood-fire blazed in the capacious hearth; a little at one side an old - fashioned table, with richly-carved legs, was placed — destined, no doubt, to receive the supper, for which preparations were going forward; and ranged with exact regularity, stood the tall-backed chairs, whose ungracefulness was more than counterbalanced by their comfort.
The Purcell Papers
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Plain and rough nature, left to itself, is much better than an artificial ungracefulness, and such studyd ways of being illfashiond.
Some Thoughts Concerning Education. Sections 61-70
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She was dancing with her husband -- a pitiful spectacle, for the lawyer must be pushed through the dance as he were a doll, with monstrous ungracefulness, and no sense of the time of the music, his thin legs quarrelling with each other, his neighbours all confused by his inexpert gyrations, and yet himself with a smirk of satisfaction on his sweating countenance.
Doom Castle
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But despite kangaroos’ ungracefulness and clumsiness, and despite emus flightlessness and feistiness, both have been elevated to the position of Australia's national animal and bird, respectively.
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He descanted with some eloquence upon the wickedness of lacing, the ungracefulness of artificial forms and the beauty of her own wholly natural grace.
In Old Kentucky
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Every ones natural genius should be carryd as far as it could; but to attempt the putting another upon him, will be but labour in vain; and what is so plaisterd on, will at best sit but untowardly, and have always hanging to it the ungracefulness of constraint and affectation.
Some Thoughts Concerning Education. Sections 61-70
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And this change came about without expostulations, reproach, or explanation, just by the turning of a key; and even this was the merest symbol, employed once only, to save the ungracefulness of words.
Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works
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I say nothing about the ungracefulness of the translation but I much fear it will by many be taken as an indication of doctrinal bias.
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Without the ungracefulness of a liquid-cooled engine's radiator and attendant plumbing to spoil the view, this motorcycles is a pleasure to peruse while sipping a hot coffee or a cold beer.
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If they don't, there's a kind of ungracefulness that's likely to reflect structural problems in the design.
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There would be a great deal more ungracefulness than beauty in either a horse or a man that was so treated.
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The fact that he was tall profited him nothing, for it merely emphasised the extreme ungracefulness of his figure.
Stories by English Authors: The Orient (Selected by Scribners)