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
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
Dear Miss Manners: I was raised in a world of social graces where you did not ask point-blank questions, except among family or very close friends.
From Washington Post • Feb. 14, 2023
Parents from as far away as New York sent their children to Allen for its rigorous liberal arts curriculum, its religious teaching, and its insistence on imparting social graces to its students.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
