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gracelessness

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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.
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Noun1.gracelessness - an unpleasant lack of grace in carriage or form or movement or expression
clumsiness, awkwardness - the carriage of someone whose movements and posture are ungainly or inelegant
2.gracelessness - the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)gracelessness - the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)
inelegance - the quality of lacking refinement and good taste
woodenness - the quality of being wooden and awkward; "he criticized the woodenness of the acting"; "there was a certain woodenness in his replies"
gaucherie, rusticity - the quality of being rustic or gauche


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He had an oily dorsal fin of a nose and a gracelessness in his slightest actions.
Perhaps he has suffered in the public mind because of that, his feud with the BBC and his gracelessness in defeat.
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