Ungraceful
[,ʌn'greisful]
Definition
(a.) Not graceful; not marked with ease and dignity; deficient in beauty and elegance; inelegant; awkward; as, ungraceful manners; ungraceful speech.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Stiff, constrained, rude, awkward, clumsy, inelegant, coarse, unrefined, unpolished, uncourtly, ungainly, uncouth, slouching, rustic, boorish, loutish, clownish, gawky, lubberly, not graceful.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Awkward, Inelegant,[See LAWLESS_and_REFRACTORY]
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Examples
- You're a reprobate,' replied Sam; 'and I desire you won't address no more o' them ungraceful remarks to me. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- His mantle and hood were of the best Flanders cloth, and fell in ample, and not ungraceful folds, around a handsome, though somewhat corpulent person. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The style was very unequal I thought: now paltry and ungraceful, now elevated. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The houses are from five to seven feet high, and all built upon one arbitrary plan--the ungraceful form of a dry-goods box. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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