Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The condition or quality of being graceless.
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- noun The state of being
graceless
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an unpleasant lack of grace in carriage or form or movement or expression
- noun the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)
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Examples
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They are amulets against vulnerability, their gracelessness a sacrifice to the fates.
The Bike Helmet Wars Virginia Postrel 2010
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Finally, James compounded his gracelessness by suggesting that criticism was based on racism, an observation which prompted Charles Barkley to declare: Just when you think it couldn't get any stupider, it gets more stupid.
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Finally, James compounded his gracelessness by suggesting that criticism was based on racism, an observation which prompted Charles Barkley to declare: Just when you think it couldn't get any stupider, it gets more stupid.
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I hope that woman in Reno will read these lines and forgive me my gracelessness and unveracity.
Confession 2010
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Rather, it's the obscene and crazy lengths that the Harper regime went to in order to cover up this paltry instance of vanity and gracelessness.
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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Finally, James compounded his gracelessness by suggesting that criticism was based on racism, an observation which prompted Charles Barkley to declare: Just when you think it couldn't get any stupider, it gets more stupid.
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Finally, James compounded his gracelessness by suggesting that criticism was based on racism, an observation which prompted Charles Barkley to declare: Just when you think it couldn't get any stupider, it gets more stupid.
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Finally, James compounded his gracelessness by suggesting that criticism was based on racism, an observation which prompted Charles Barkley to declare: Just when you think it couldn't get any stupider, it gets more stupid.
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"I'm glad your father didn't live to see you in all the glory of your gracelessness," he said.
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Video footage of the encounter seems to have been scrubbed from the internet, but its gracelessness, and Timberlake's unaccountable ungentlemanliness, speaks for itself.
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