graceless
Americanadjective
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lacking any sense of right and wrong; depraved
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lacking grace or excellence
Other Word Forms
- gracelessly adverb
- gracelessness noun
Etymology
Origin of graceless
Example Sentences
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“And what do you know? You are too young: you smell of your mother’s milk. You have the bumptious, graceless confidence of the recently born.”
From Literature
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Was “Boots” going to be “Private Benjamin,” some graceless sitcom about a misfit soldier?
The new courthouse, despite its graceless tower, became Ritchie’s calling card.
From Seattle Times
The film is so graceless and bizarre in its attempts at tugging at the viewer’s emotions that it often feels like a work of parody.
From New York Times
He describes his co-star in The Piano, the American actor Harvey Keitel, as "truculent and difficult and a bit graceless".
From BBC
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