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ungraceful

How to use ungraceful in a sentence

Surely nothing can be more ungraceful than to see a lady shuffle and run across a street.

Tess Rillette was screaming and putting herself between Frey and Lasseroe, in an ungraceful try at the old martyr act.

Modest yet courageous in manner, plain but not ungraceful in style, his address told upon the house.

Of all ungraceful beings, they are the most ungraceful; and of all accomplishments, dancing is the one in which they shine least.

HUDSON BAYR.M. BALLANTYNE

He called off his dog, and apologised, with a not ungraceful mixture of diffidence and ease, for his intrusion.

Their lines, while forbidding any thought of speed, are not ungraceful, and eminently suitable for weight carrying.

Not a halt nor an ungraceful turn, but every curve and motion was as perfect as if they had danced together all their lives.

He was a tall thin man of thirty or less with a dark face lean enough to show hard ungraceful lines of chin and jaw.

A DAUGHTER OF THE VINEGERTRUDE FRANKLIN HORN ATHERTON

He was not ungraceful for lack of desire to please: bless his kind, officious heart!

This ungraceful practice can be tolerated only for a moment when the mud is very deep.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985