Graceless
['greɪslɪs] or ['ɡresləs]
Definition
(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' .
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Definition
(a.) Wanting in grace or excellence; departed from, or deprived of, divine grace; hence, depraved; corrupt.
(a.) Unfortunate. Cf. Grace, n., 4.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Depraved, degenerate, corrupt, profligate, reprobate, dissolute, abandoned, lost, shameless, obdurate, hardened, incorrigible, irreclaimable, wicked.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Ungraceful, vicious, scampish, reprobate, abandoned, worthless
ANT:Graceful, virtuous, conscientious, upright, worthy
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Examples
- 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. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- You know I'm such a graceless dog that these religious aspects of such subjects don't edify me much. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Mrs. Bounderby, though a graceless person, of the world worldly, I feel the utmost interest, I assure you, in what you tell me. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- A shattered graceless fellow, stretched at his length here, and next to nothing for you when you are a young widow. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Sharp watched this graceless bedside with indomitable patience. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- 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! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Twas a graceless trick--such a handsome girl, too. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
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