gracelessness
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Definition(s):
- (n) an unpleasant lack of grace in carriage or form or movement or expression
- (n) the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)
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Usage(s):
- A large, lumbering man whose amiable gracelessness extends both to his music and his conducting, Khachaturian, 64, is not exactly soured on the success of the Sabre Dance.
- Just inside the town limits, two new buildings vie in raw gracelessness, both souvenir shops.
- Stella's saving gracelessness was lack of awareness; she never realized what a ridiculous figure she cut.
Quotes
- Chris Grayling, for the Conservatives, said it was "a shame that the Government had to be dragged kicking and screaming" to do the right thing, while Chris Huhne, for the Liberal Democrats, remarked on the "gracelessness of the whole...on May 21, 2009 By: Chris Grayling Source: Telegraph.co.uk
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