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graceless

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grace·less  (grsls)
adj.
1. Lacking grace; clumsy.
2. Having or exhibiting no sense of propriety or decency.
3. Inferior or clumsy in treatment or performance: a graceless production of the play.

graceless·ly adv.
graceless·ness n.

graceless [ˈgreɪslɪs]
adj
1. lacking any sense of right and wrong; depraved
2. lacking grace or excellence
gracelessly  adv
gracelessness  n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.gracelessgraceless - lacking graciousness; "a totally graceless hostess"
ungracious - lacking charm and good taste; "an ungracious industrial city"; "this curt summary is not meant to be ungracious"; "ungracious behavior"
2.gracelessgraceless - lacking grace; clumsy; "a graceless production of the play"; "his stature low...his bearing ungraceful"- Sir Walter Scott
awkward - lacking grace or skill in manner or movement or performance; "an awkward dancer"; "an awkward gesture"; "too awkward with a needle to make her own clothes"; "his clumsy fingers produced an awkward knot"
3.gracelessgraceless - lacking social polish; "too gauche to leave the room when the conversation became intimate"; "their excellent manners always made me feel gauche"
inelegant - lacking in refinement or grace or good taste

graceless
adjective
1. inelegant, forced, awkward, clumsy, ungainly a graceless pirouette
Translations
graceless [ˈgreɪslɪs] ADJ (= inelegant) → desgarbado, torpe; (= impolite) → descortés, grosero
graceless
adj
(Eccl) → ruchlos, gottlos
(= unattractive) buildingreizlos
(= rude)schroff; person, behaviourungehobelt, schroff; (= lacking charm) teenagerlinkisch
graceless [ˈgreɪslɪs] adj (dress) → poco elegante; (rude) → sgarbato/a
graceless [ˈgreɪslɪs] adj (dress) → poco elegante; (rude) → sgarbato/a


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But I must be out of my senses to think and utter such nonsense; for it is impossible that a long, white-hooded spectacled duenna could stir up or excite a wanton thought in the most graceless bosom in the world.
Then the visiting "watch below," transformed into graceless ladies and uncouth pilgrims, by rude travesties upon waterfalls, hoopskirts, white kid gloves and swallow-tail coats, moved solemnly up the companion way, and bowing low, began a system of complicated and extraordinary smiling which few monarchs could look upon and live.
They wept over it as they sang it, the graceless young scamps who had all broken their mothers' prides, and I sang with them, and wept with them, and luxuriated in the pathos and the tragedy of it, and struggled to make glimmering inebriated generalisations on life and romance.
 
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