graceless

[US]/'greɪslɪs/
[UK]/'ɡresləs/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. lacking elegance or beauty; lacking charm or politeness; lacking grace or refinement; lacking manners or decorum.

Example Sentences

a graceless production of the play.

Real-world Examples

So his Grace turned out to be graceless!

Source: Downton Abbey (Audio Segmented Version) Season 1

She could not but go on, graceless as it might seem.

Source: A pair of blue eyes (Part 1)

Amaranta, the younger, was somewhat graceless, but she had the natural distinction, the inner tightnessof her dead grandmother.

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude

" It didn't spill, " said Joffrey, too graceless to take the retreat Tyrion offered him. " And I wasn't serving you, either" .

Source: A Song of Ice and Fire: A Storm of Ice and Rain (Bilingual)

With an even graceless flow that reminded Anthony of the rolling of bowling balls he launched himself into the sea of exposition.

Source: Beauty and Destruction (Part 2)

The kisses turn messy, then, urgent and graceless, and Alex gets lost in the drag and slide and press of Henry's lips, the sweet liquor of it.

Source: Red White & Royal Blue

There was one dim unformed fear lingering about his sister's mind, to which she never gave utterance, which surrounded the graceless and ungrateful boy with a dreadful mystery.

Source: Difficult Times (Part 2)

He could not be convinced that moral standards had nothing to do with it, and that utilitarian morality was good enough for him, as it was for the graceless.

Source: The Education of Henry Adams (Volume 1)

Anthony laughed, thrown immediately into that humor in which men and women were graceless and absurd phantasms, grotesquely curved and rounded in a rectangular world of their own building.

Source: Beauty and Destruction (Part 1)

But I still wonder how it was possible, in those graceless years of transition, long ago, that men did not see whither they were going, and went on, in blindness and cowardice, to their fate.

Source: A person

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