Crossword clues for gracelessly
gracelessly
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, n.
Wiktionary
adv. In a graceless manner
WordNet
adv. without grace; rigidly; "they moved woodenly" [syn: ungraciously, ungracefully, woodenly, without graciousness] [ant: graciously, graciously]
in a graceless manner; "she moves rather gracelessly" [ant: gracefully]
Usage examples of "gracelessly".
Cerise lifted her, barely feeling the effort, and let her go again, saw her slide gracelessly to the bottom of the wall and sit for an instant, long legs sprawling, before the other girl moved to help her up.
The pearl divers had bashed gracelessly at each other: Master Jaks did a precise dance of death.
Unprepared, Cecilia was tossed gracelessly against the wall, almost losing her bonnet.
Without another word, David dragged her toward the carriage and shoved her rather gracelessly into it.
The being scrawked in pain and collapsed down on what were maybe knees, just as gracelessly as an Earth camel.
The household assembler has been compromised by Curious Yellow, our backups willfully erased to make room for the wasps of tyranny, and, although I don’t know it yet, my life has been gracelessly cut loose from everything that gave it meaning.
The air-cushion vehicles moved gracelessly across the water and over the sandy beaches to the corrugated aluminum warehouses, where they left cargo containers and picked up empties.
Fleet marine green armor sprawled gracelessly across a hatchway - she noted the location, and keyed it to the marine commander.
Sassinak flicked through the quadrant monitors, picking up stray visuals: gray battle armor jogging here, flashes from weapons there, Fleet marine green armor sprawled gracelessly across a hatchway - she noted the location, and keyed it to the marine commander.
It comes up so quickly, almost weightless in his hand that he overbalances, then scrambles back gracelessly, the rock still embraced as it literally explodes from the mire.
Her straw-colored hair, hanging gracelessly to her shoulders, made him think of the very young girls of his youth, but when she came closer he saw that she was middle-aged.
Kincaid put a helpful arm around her waist as she gracelessly thumped down the steps ami turned toward her quarters.
Graice Courtney turns quickly to walk in the opposite direction but somehow it happens she blinks: he's there one of them is on the sidewalk grinning, blocking her way basketball style and when she turns like a trapped animal there's another, gangly limbed and antic, reefer happy, blocking her way so she's transfixed, thinking, Don't struggle, don't resist then they won't kill you but when the playful black boys grab her and drag her into the back seat of the already moving car she loses control, she's weeping and hysterical suddenly, screaming, kicking, pummeling with her fists sprawled helplessly and gracelessly across their laps, three of them jammed in the back as the car guns off, tires squealing, and there's wild laughter as their hands run over her in amazed delight, fingers deft and hard, there's a smell of sweet acrid smoke and cheap wine and they're grabbing her breasts, squeezing, sticking their fingers into her, into her crotch, she's panicked, squirming like a maddened eel, screaming and sobbing.