ungracefulness

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The want of this harmony occasions the ungracefulness of their paces, the difficulty of their movements; in a word, all the obstacles to a good education.

From New Method of Horsemanship Including the Breaking and Training of Horses, with Instructions for Obtaining a Good Seat. by Baucher, F.

Mrs. Venables spoke to her quite sharply for once on the subject of limitations of interest and ungracefulness of speech.

From The Furnace by Macaulay, Rose, Dame

They were too habituated to the ungracefulness of an unlettered pride, to bow themselves to address conciliating language either to the people or their foes.

From Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

SOCRATES: Then voluntary ungracefulness comes from excellence of the bodily frame, and involuntary from the defect of the bodily frame?

From Lesser Hippias by Jowett, Benjamin

He descanted with some eloquence upon the wickedness of lacing, the ungracefulness of artificial forms and the beauty of her own wholly natural grace.

From In Old Kentucky by Marshall, Edward