Thesaurus / graceless
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His slight, thin, rather graceless figure seemed suddenly to expand, even to grow taller.
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTONBut the graceless Henrietta stuck her tongue out and stole into the passage, whence she hoped to reach the workroom unobserved.
SKIPPER WORSEALEXANDER LANGE KIELLANDTremayne reported that Clanricarde was quite unable to restrain his graceless sons.
IRELAND UNDER THE TUDORS, VOL. II (OF 3)RICHARD BAGWELLValmond had, in a vague, graceless sort of way, worked upon the quick emotions of Elise.
WHEN VALMOND CAME TO PONTIAC, COMPLETEGILBERT PARKERThey could swim all day, likely enough, those graceless young scamps.
MARK TWAIN, A BIOGRAPHY, 1835-1910, COMPLETEALBERT BIGELOW PAINELike the lion to which his graceless son compared him, Ninus was lashing himself into rage.
SARCHEDONG. J. (GEORGE JOHN) WHYTE-MELVILLEHe carried things with a high hand, indeed, treating the partners as he might a graceless lot of undisciplined midshipmen.
SOUTH AMERICAN FIGHTS AND FIGHTERSCYRUS TOWNSEND BRADYA few graceless fellows in the company began to eat and drink before a blessing was asked, and seemingly fared well.
THE MYSTERIES OF ALL NATIONSJAMES GRANTI'll try to think of my own latter end; a gray beard, and a graceless heir; in order to make me serious.
CLARISSA, VOLUME 6 (OF 9)SAMUEL RICHARDSONBut, his terms being all rejected, he said proudly, “It is folly to seek grace at a graceless face.”
THE RIVERS OF GREAT BRITAIN: RIVERS OF THE EAST COASTVARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO GRACELESS
- arthritic
- benumbed
- brittle
- buckram
- cemented
- chilled
- congealed
- contracted
- creaky
- firm
- fixed
- frozen
- graceless
- hardened
- immalleable
- impliable
- incompliant
- indurate
- inelastic
- jelled
- mechanical
- numbed
- ossified
- petrified
- refractory
- resistant
- rheumatic
- rigid
- set
- solid
- solidified
- starched
- starchy
- stark
- steely
- stiff as a board
- stony
- taut
- tense
- thick
- thickened
- tight
- unbending
- unflexible
- ungraceful
- unsupple
- unyielding
- wooden
- artificial
- barbaric
- barbarous
- coarse
- crass
- crude
- down and dirty
- flashy
- foolish
- garish
- gaudy
- graceless
- hideous
- impolite
- improper
- indecorous
- indelicate
- indiscreet
- inelegant
- loud
- low
- low-down
- makeshift
- off-color
- ornate
- ostentatious
- outlandish
- pretentious
- raunchy
- rough
- rude
- showy
- stupid
- tacky
- tactless
- tawdry
- trivial
- uncouth
- unlovely
- unpolished
- unrefined
- unseemly
- unsightly
- useless
- wild
- awkward
- barbaric
- boorish
- cheap
- clownish
- coarse
- crass
- crude
- discourteous
- disgracious
- gawky
- graceless
- gross
- heavy-handed
- ill-bred
- ill-mannered
- impertinent
- impolite
- inelegant
- loud
- loud-mouthed
- loutish
- oafish
- raunchy
- raw
- rough
- rude
- rustic
- strange
- tacky
- uncalled-for
- uncivil
- uncivilized
- ungainly
- ungenteel
- ungentlemanly
- unpolished
- unrefined
- unseemly
- vulgar
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