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Meanings of ungracefulness in English

An unpleasant lack of grace in carriage or form or movement or expression.

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Examples for "gracelessness"
Examples for "gracelessness"
1
The doctor's impulsive nature rose in revolt against the merciless brevity and gracelessness of that reply.
Armadale
2
Yet, how could he without utter gracelessness decline?
The Tyranny of Weakness
3
Here there was appalling poverty and gracelessness.
A reliable wife
4
The matter which had taken Mr. Carlyle thither was entered upon immediately-FrancisLevison, his debts, and his gracelessness.
East Lynne
5
His jaw stiffened, then with a sense of chagrin for this gracelessness he stepped forward with a belated cordiality.
The Tyranny of Weakness
Usage of ungracefulness in English
1
Hence all the deformity and ungracefulness that ever pursue the steps of constraint or affectation.
The Prose Works of William Wordsworth / For the First Time Colle...
2
The Turkish lady walks with a slouchy gait, her shroud-like abbas adding not a little to the ungracefulness.
Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume I / From San Francisco to...
3
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)
4
SOCRATES: Then voluntary ungracefulness comes from excellence of the bodily frame, and involuntary from the defect of the bodily frame?
Lesser Hippias
Ungracefulness through the time