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Gracefully

Graceful \Grace"ful\, a. Displaying grace or beauty in form or action; elegant; easy; agreeable in appearance; as, a graceful walk, deportment, speaker, air, act, speech.

High o'er the rest in arms the graceful Turnus rode.
--Dryden. -- Grace"ful*ly, adv. Grace"ful*ness, n.

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gracefully

adv. In a graceful manner.

WordNet
gracefully
  1. adv. in a graceful manner; "she swooped gracefully" [ant: gracelessly]

  2. in a gracious or graceful manner; "he did not have a chance to grow up graciously" [syn: graciously] [ant: ungraciously, ungraciously]

Usage examples of "gracefully".

Frenchman, making one of his best bows, and playing gracefully with the aiguillettes that danced upon his breast, proceeded in courteous accents to deliver his mission.

To the surprise of even two such veteran flyers as John Ross and Tom Meeks, the airplane had gone less than fifty yards when she began to rise as gracefully as a swallow in response to her up-turned ailerons and elevators.

When Alec had pulled the lacings snug, he carefully draped a gauzy wimple over his hair, binding it with a silk cord and arranging the folds to spread gracefully over his shoulders.

She knelt gracefully before Bora, contriving to let her robe fall away from her neck and throat.

Pompey by the rigid laws of clientship, he had assisted Pompey in the war against Caesar, but after Pharsalus had sent a polite, apologetic missive to Caesar asking gracefully for forgiveness and the privilege of transferring his clientship to Caesar.

She forgot to swing her muslin delaine skirts gracefully, and flounced along hitting the dusty meadowsweet bushes.

It was then right for Henriette to welcome him, which she did most gracefully.

Free of the confining womb of stone, the drack gracefully climbed higher in the sky, before folding its wings close to its body and diving down the mountain path.

Venus, really an electrolier, held an apple of golden glass in a gracefully outstretched hand.

A tall weeping willow tree bowed forward gracefully to enshroud them in its protective arms.

The equestrienne sank gracefully to a rest on the flank of the big white horse, patting him affectionately, while some hands began rolling great tubs into the ring.

That coppery skin made the gracefully beautiful woman in dark bronze silk Demira Eriff, the Brown sister who Min had reported had taken to her bed.

The Fam bounded easily and gracefully down the fountain, showing off for the humans.

The three pursuing cats jumped gracefully onto the porch roiling and sat down, curling their tails around their feet, just as Fiddlesticks poked his head out of the front door.

Her husband, the vice president of Henderson Petroleum, had been backed into a corner by insurance salesman Carl Godet and was trying to edge away gracefully.