ungracefulness
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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
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
SOCRATES: Then voluntary ungracefulness comes from excellence of the bodily frame, and involuntary from the defect of the bodily frame?
From Lesser Hippias by Benjamin Jowett
The one in the etching referred to is both physically weak and a bad horsewoman to boot—sitting her horse with all the ungracefulness of a sack of flour.
From English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. by Graham Everitt
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
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