ungracefulness
Example Sentences
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Mr. Dillwyn could see by her manner, he thought, that she would be glad if Mrs. Wishart would come in and take him off her hands; but there was no awkwardness or ungracefulness or unreadiness.
From Nobody by Susan Warner
Nevertheless so clumsy a beau, that thou seemest to me to owe thyself a double spite, making thy ungracefulness appear the more ungraceful, by thy remarkable tawdriness, when thou art out of mourning.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7 by Samuel Richardson
And this change came about without expostulations, reproach, or explanation, just by the turning of a key; and even this was the merest symbol, employed once only, to save the ungracefulness of words.
From Fraternity by John Galsworthy
On a subject of so much importance, and where it is so desirable to have clear and definite ideas, the rhetorical ungracefulness of repetition is of little moment, when this repetition serves our great end.
From A Review of Edwards's by Henry Philip Tappan
Mrs. Venables spoke to her quite sharply for once on the subject of limitations of interest and ungracefulness of speech.
From The Furnace by Dame Rose Macaulay
