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ungraceful

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Un`grace´ful
a.1.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.
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Adj.1.ungracefulungraceful - lacking grace; clumsy; "a graceless production of the play"; "his stature low...his bearing ungraceful"- Sir Walter Scott
graceless
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"
Translations
ungraceful
adj → nicht anmutig; movement, build → plump, ungelenk; behaviour → unfein


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She sat low at the instrument, and the lines of her body settled into ungraceful curves and angles that gave it an appearance of deformity.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories by Chopin, Kate View in context
My Lady stamped, which was undignified: and snorted, which was ungraceful.
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Hepzibah--stately as ever at heart, and yielding not an inch of her old gentility, but resting upon it so much the more, as justifying a princess-like condescension--exhibited a not ungraceful hospitality.
House Of Seven Gables by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
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