graceless

Example Sentences

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Was “Boots” going to be “Private Benjamin,” some graceless sitcom about a misfit soldier?

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025

But a graceless end should not obscure DiFi’s shining accomplishments and her place in American history.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 29, 2023

He describes his co-star in The Piano, the American actor Harvey Keitel, as "truculent and difficult and a bit graceless".

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2023

Gender can be the graceless act of discovery and affirmation, the ugly vitality of blood, the patient organizing and reshaping of something that’s never before been listened to correctly.

From New York Times • Feb. 11, 2022

Amaranta, the younger, was somewhat graceless, but she had the natural distinction, the inner tightness of her dead grandmother.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez