ungracefulness

Example Sentences

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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 Everitt, Graham

Every ungracefulness must have shown its full deformity, with no possibility of disguise; every angle must have been aggravated, and every untoward movement made doubly fatal.

From A Red Wallflower by Warner, Susan

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 Galsworthy, John

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 Richardson, Samuel

The fact that he was tall profited him nothing, for it merely emphasised the extreme ungracefulness of his figure.

From Stories by English Authors: The Orient (Selected by Scribners) by Roberts, Morley