释义 |
gracelessgrace‧less /ˈɡreɪsləs/ adjective  - I managed a slow graceless turn as I skied down the hill for the first time.
- But suddenly, the difference between the overwhelming beauty of the tiger and the graceless body of the decaying fly seem no longer.
- He was tall and lean in the angular, graceless mountaineer style.
- Many of the gloating obituaries were graceless and did no one any credit.
- Michael grows into fatherhood and bachelorhood with graceless ease.
- She began to swim with her nervy, graceless stroke and Nick watched her sympathetically.
- So when they held dinner-parties Scarlet skimped on the smoked salmon, and Brian rebuked her for her graceless parsimony.
- The porter's speech disappears, for example; and Malcolm is at least as ugly and graceless as the tyrant he replaces.
1not being polite, especially when someone has been kind to you: He was bad-tempered and graceless in defeat.2moving or doing something in a way that seems awkward OPP graceful: The soldiers were graceless with their heavy packs and helmets.3something that is graceless is unattractive and unpleasant to look at OPP graceful: graceless architecture—gracelessly adverb |