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单词 gracelessly
释义
gracelessgrace‧less /ˈɡreɪsləs/ adjective Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • I managed a slow graceless turn as I skied down the hill for the first time.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • 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 architecturegracelessly adverb
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