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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
graceless
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I managed a slow graceless turn as I skied down the hill for the first time.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But suddenly, the difference between the overwhelming beauty of the tiger and the graceless body of the decaying fly seem no longer.
▪ He was tall and lean in the angular, graceless mountaineer style.
▪ Many of the gloating obituaries were graceless and did no one any credit.
▪ Michael grows into fatherhood and bachelorhood with graceless ease.
▪ She began to swim with her nervy, graceless stroke and Nick watched her sympathetically.
▪ So when they held dinner-parties Scarlet skimped on the smoked salmon, and Brian rebuked her for her graceless parsimony.
▪ The porter's speech disappears, for example; and Malcolm is at least as ugly and graceless as the tyrant he replaces.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Graceless

Graceless \Grace"less\, a.

  1. Wanting in grace or excellence; departed from, or deprived of, divine grace; hence, depraved; corrupt. ``In a graceless age.''
    --Milton.

  2. Unfortunate. Cf. Grace, n., 4. [Obs.]
    --Chaucer. -- Grace"less*ly, adv. -- Grace"less*ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
graceless

late 14c., "not in a state of grace," from grace (n.) + -less. Meaning "wanting charm or elegance" is from 1630s. Related: Gracelessly; gracelessness.

Wiktionary
graceless

a. without grace

WordNet
graceless
  1. adj. lacking graciousness; "a totally graceless hostess" [syn: unpleasing]

  2. lacking grace; clumsy; "a graceless production of the play"; "his stature low...his bearing ungraceful"- Sir Walter Scott [syn: ungraceful]

  3. lacking social polish; "too gauche to leave the room when the conversation became intimate"; "their excellent manners always may be feel gauche" [syn: gauche, unpolished]

Wikipedia
Graceless (Sulk album)

Graceless is the debut album by British psychedelic rock/ shoegaze band SULK, released on 15 April 2013 on Perfect Sound Forever.

Graceless

Graceless may refer to:

  • Graceless (Sulk album)
  • Graceless, English marketing name of 2003 Shino Lin album Bùzhī hǎodǎi
  • "Graceless", 2013 song by The National (band) from the album Trouble Will Find Me
  • "Graceless", song by The Damnwells from Air Stereo 2006
  • "Graceless", song by The Crayon Fields
  • Graceless, an audio play series by Big Finish Productions
Graceless (Big Finish series)

Graceless features sisters Abby (previously Amy, changed due to the introduction of Amy Pond to the TV series) and Zara; human "tracers" created by celestial beings The Grace, creators of the Key to Time. Introduced in the Key2Time trilogy ( The Judgement of Isskar, The Destroyer of Delights, The Chaos Pool), Abby and Zara are now free from The Grace, and must learn to fend for themselves in our universe.

Usage examples of "graceless".

A nursery screamer where dialectics ruled: Mannerless, graceless, laughterless, unlike Herself in all, yet with such power to strike, That she the various features she could scan Dared not to sum, though seeing: and befooled By power which beamed omnipotent, she bowed, Subservient as roused echo round his guns.

She was blond very much as Coke Rymer was blond, but she was thin and graceless, had no cruelty in her.

It was Saturday, universal shopping-day in the farmland, and a ramshackle line of rustic vehicles--buggies, democrats, sulkies, lumber wagons--with graceless plough horses slumbering in the thills, stretched in ragged alignment down the curb.

From a nail in one corner of the room hung a red and white zarape, a bridle, one of those graceless bits which would wrench the mouth of the wildest horse to agony, and a sombrero.

Most of the Architect temples on Urradeth are similarly squat and graceless, and Danlo thought that was too bad because organic stone can be the loveliest of materials to work.

The animals are chipped, the paint is peeling, the giraffe and elephant are missing hooves and tusks, and the carousel is musicless and graceless.

Third, Bruno himself stuck in said inn for the rest of the day while his passenger goes off with a young Austrian witness to pursue his investigations -finally cracks up under the dour cloud of graceless silence and the glares of loathing lasered his way by the locals, and finally freaks out completely at a cafe where he and Zen stop on the way back down the mountain, screaming action ably offensive abuse at the stocky, stolid Teutonic blockheads who have made his life and those of all his fellow recruits a misery for months on end.

Notebook, however, set off downhill on firm going at a graceless rush, roller-coastered over the most distant hurdles, and only began to lose interest when he hit the sharply rising ground on the way back.

He skis, they say, with the graceless desperation of a man about to crash, fighting to keep his balance.

John Bunyan read neither Plato nor Aristotle, but he read David and Paul till he was the chief of sinners, and till he was first the Graceless and then the Christian of his own next-to-the-Bible book.

There was a certain graceless brusquerie in the movement which attracted Miss Hofmann's attention.

The creature spun, beating its wings languorously, its body careering across the sky with the chaotic graceless speed of a butterfly.

Jo thought a moment as the three of them walked down the dimly lit street, past house trailers and the dull, graceless cement block office buildings.

Then the good doctor comes across Arnold Armstrong, who was a graceless scamp--de mortuis--what's the rest of it?

Death for dope fiends, death for sex queens (I mean fiends) death for the psychopath who offends the cowed and graceless flesh with broken animal innocence of lithe move- ment.