graceful
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The president’s house is a graceful but relatively modest structure.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
Pollock somehow managed to flick a QPR cross high into the air and, in one graceful movement, head the ball over goalkeeper Martyn Margetson and into the net to put City's opponents 2-1 up.
From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026
Crockett, despite throwing very effective jabs, is less graceful when it comes to taking criticism.
From Slate • Mar. 3, 2026
Its opening sequence is both graceful and conspicuous; its exposition is entirely legible, yet so very charming that its plainness doesn’t matter one bit.
From Salon • Feb. 28, 2026
John showed Robin the graceful instrument and how the seven strings were fastened with tiny pegs in the maple sounding board which covered the hollow oval base.
From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli
Vocabulary lists containing graceful
Power Suffix: -ful
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A Single Shard
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