Graceless
['greɪslɪs] or ['ɡresləs]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) lacking grace; clumsy; 'a graceless production of the play'; 'his stature low...his bearing ungraceful'- Sir Walter Scott .
(adj.) lacking graciousness; 'a totally graceless hostess' .
伊凡手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Wanting in grace or excellence; departed from, or deprived of, divine grace; hence, depraved; corrupt.
(a.) Unfortunate. Cf. Grace, n., 4.
巴纳德編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Depraved, degenerate, corrupt, profligate, reprobate, dissolute, abandoned, lost, shameless, obdurate, hardened, incorrigible, irreclaimable, wicked.
校對:塞尔玛
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Ungraceful, vicious, scampish, reprobate, abandoned, worthless
ANT:Graceful, virtuous, conscientious, upright, worthy
校對:莱斯利
例句/造句/用法:
- She cried, with her clasped hands lifted above her head, that it would kill their father if he ever knew it; and fell down at Tip's graceless feet. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- You know I'm such a graceless dog that these religious aspects of such subjects don't edify me much. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Mrs. Bounderby, though a graceless person, of the world worldly, I feel the utmost interest, I assure you, in what you tell me. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- A shattered graceless fellow, stretched at his length here, and next to nothing for you when you are a young widow. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Sharp watched this graceless bedside with indomitable patience. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- And so, a graceless orphan, training to be a singing girl, carries it, by that Frederick Dorrit's agency, against me, and I am humbled and deceived! 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Twas a graceless trick--such a handsome girl, too. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
校對:莱斯利