The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ungraceful \Un*grace"ful\, a. Not graceful; not marked with ease and dignity; deficient in beauty and elegance; inelegant; awkward; as, ungraceful manners; ungraceful speech.
The other oak remaining a blackened and ungraceful
trunk.
--Sir W.
Scott.
[1913 Webster] -- Un*grace"ful*ly, adv. --
Un*grace"ful*ness, n.
Wiktionary
adv. In an ungraceful manner.
WordNet
adv. without grace; rigidly; "they moved woodenly" [syn: ungraciously, gracelessly, woodenly, without graciousness] [ant: graciously, graciously]
Usage examples of "ungracefully".
More than once we had to flatten ourselves ungracefully against the mountainside while a carriage careened around the corner, sending pebbles and larger rocks flying off the edge of the road to shatter in the gorges below.
She scraped the skin on her face and chest as she slithered ungracefully to the ground.
The crowbar had broken through the mass of roots, unbalancing Jeremiah so he fell ungracefully to one knee.
He fell so ungracefully and draped over the marquee, blood pouring down over the lights.
He wore his grey hair, carelessly, but not ungracefully arranged, and, spite of his harsh gaunt features, he looks like a gentleman and a soldier.
AAnn, the ball of thrashing limbs spilled ungracefully across the floor.
Arzosah down from her high perch She flopped ungracefully into the dew-damp grass next to him and yawned, shaking her wings.
Some of them leaped wildly and ungracefully while clawing behind them.
Fergus with a bemused grin on his face as Beth clambered ungracefully into the car, the tight and very short skirt restricting her progress.
We slid ungracefully down the pole and were pushed and shoved into our places, for scientific management in a New York fire-house has reached one hundred per cent efficiency, and we were not to be allowed to delay the game.
Jaxom said, patting Ruth's muzzle affectionately and laughing as the white dragon, too eager to dive, waddled ungracefully into the sea.