social graces
Example Sentences
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By the time Alfred left for Cambridge to join his two elder brothers, he was a skilled poet, but he lacked all social graces.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
Such expected social graces are one of the unique burdens of being America’s first Black president.
From Salon • Jul. 26, 2025
Christopher, a young would-be novelist, has the social graces of a jackhammer.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 12, 2023
Their linguistic skills, knowledge base and social graces will soon become flawless, endowed with perfect recall, competence, poise, reasoning abilities and intelligence.
From Scientific American • Sep. 8, 2023
They worry that he doesn’t have the right social graces to fit in—at either job.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
