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The inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)
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gracelessness
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an unpleasant carriage [syn: ungracefulness ] the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment) [syn: awkwardness , clumsiness , stiffness ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Graceless \Grace"less\, a. Wanting in grace or excellence; departed from, or deprived of, divine grace; hence, depraved; corrupt. ``In a graceless age.'' --Milton. Unfortunate. Cf. Grace , n., 4. [Obs.] --Chaucer. -- Grace"less*ly , adv. -- Grace"less*ness ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The state of being graceless.
Usage examples of gracelessness.
Robin staggered along behind until they reached the chair, then he tripped and tumbled into it, sitting down with the gracelessness of the near terminally inebriated.
Pearl Chesney was not unaware of this, as she was not unaware of her physical gracelessness, her increasingly stout figure, her lack of all the attributes that Julia admired.
To Porterhouse he owed his nerve, the nerve a few years later, while still a Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister of Transport, to propose to Mary Lacey, the only daughter of the Liberal Peer, the Earl of Sanderstead: the nerve to repeat the the proposal yearly and to accept her annual refusal with a gracelessness that had gradually convinced her of the depth of his feelings.
Your slavish yearnings seem disgusting and truly insolent, and you show a gracelessness in bruiting them about.
With studied gracelessness he shuffled around his four-room office — televisions, hi-fis, a pinball machine, De Palma film posters, curved white tables, orderly work-surfaces.
This former gracelessness on the part of Kesrith’s younglings in general was surely due to the years of war which had encompassed the younglings’ entire experience.