gracelesslyadv.
/ˈɡreɪslᵻsli/, U.S. /ˈɡreɪslᵻsli/ In a graceless manner (in various senses of the adjective).
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the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > evil and graceless > [adverb]
ungraciously1377
gracelesslyc1450
society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > [adverb] > without grace or lost to virtue
ungraciously1377
gracelesslyc1450
deperditely1608
perditlya1632
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > inelegance > [adverb]
barbarously1531
rustically1548
crabbedly1561
scabrouslya1572
gracelesslya1586
unelegantly1603
uneloquently1611
crudely1638
inelegantly1698
ineloquently1828
the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > inelegance > [adverb] > ungracefully
ungainlya1661
ungracefully1661
awkwardly1663
disgraciatelya1734
gracelessly1846
c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 126 Þanne þei deyin gracelesly.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. L2 The French..hath not one word, that hath his accent in..Antepenultima, and little more hath the Spanish: and therefore, very gracelesly may they vse Dactiles.
1608 Bp. T. Morton Preamble Incounter 115 Which must haue beene either giddily rash, or gracelesly false.
1659 D. Pell Πελαγος 227 (note) Thy life lyes at the stake to answer his whom thou gracelesly goes about to take away.
1757 E. Perronet Mitre (new ed.) iii. cclxxi. 195 My sorrows—and my faults conceal'd: Now gracelessly disclos'd.
1846 H. W. Torrens Remarks Uses Mil. Hist. 96 The horses, bridleless, moving gracelessly with the neck stiff and the head stretched out.
1894 H. Nisbet Bush Girl's Romance 238 He had taken favours all his life, gracelessly and as his due.
1954 N. Coward Diary 11 July (2000) 239 The bloody old clergyman gabbled the service gracelessly and without heart.
1997 Sight & Sound Jan. 41/2 They then mill about so gracelessly and are photographed so unflatteringly.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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