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Meanings of unpleasing in English

Lacking graciousness.

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Examples for "graceless"
1
Splendid; airy, untouched by fear; untouched by thought; fearless, faithless, heedless, graceless.
If Winter Comes
2
Those three graceless girls read the sentimental rhyme and giggled over it.
The Golden Road
3
He called himself the basest of wretches, the most graceless of lovers.
Nedra
4
He looked around the room, which was stuffed with heavy graceless furniture.
Misery
5
We look at their portraits and wonder vaguely at their graceless costumes.
Worldly Ways & Byways
Usage of unpleasing in English
1
To dote on the things of the flesh is unpleasing to God.
Masters of the Guild
2
There was a weary expression in his intelligent and not unpleasing countenance.
The Trapper's Son
3
That envy and covetousness are unpleasing and unprofitable are shown by these:
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10: The Guide
4
Miriam must not only be contemplated in a new, but unpleasing light.
Female Scripture Biography, Volume I
5
The state into which he has gravitated is a very unpleasing one.
Real Ghost Stories
6
But hark-todivert this angry parley- Ihearno unpleasing touch of minstrelsy.
The Fair Maid of Perth; Or, St. Valentine's Day
7
While she danced with him, she found his brisk directness not unpleasing.
Port O' Gold / A History-Romance of the San Francisco Argonauts
8
A firm attitude on the girl's part came as an unpleasing novelty.
The Wheel O' Fortune
9
The human invader, above all; how loud and unpleasing his voice is!
The Complex Vision
10
The general cast of it, however, is simple and not unpleasing.
The Voyage of Verrazzano / A Chapter in the Early History of Mar...
11
His silence seemed to be the joint result of modesty and unpleasing remembrances.
Arthur Mervyn; Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793
12
He was uncommonly ugly and unpleasing in appearance, but was very richly dressed.
My Book of Favourite Fairy Tales
13
The intervals are awry, but the combined effect is not unpleasing.
Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world: a novel
14
By not opening their letters Bonaparte was spared the unpleasing office of refusing.
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Volume 02
15
Either mood was unpleasing to him: it contained tacit reproach for his separateness.
McClure's Magazine, Vol. 31, No. 1, May 1908
16
The furniture of this room was rather quaint, and not unpleasing.
Vivian Grey
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