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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.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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)
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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The correlation between litigiousness and gracelessness is no accident.
Pretty much every hoop the Iraqis were asked to jump through, they did--although they usually managed to do it with just enough gracelessness to keep alive all the suspicions harbored by even their best friends.
And with that (pace Hemingway), a sort of gracelessness under pressure of grace which is the worrying tone of the book.
 
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