graceful
I prefer to grow old gracefully.
Whether you handle criticism gracefully or make a big deal of it can make all the difference.
They appeared on television recently talking about how their father gave up power gracefully.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Polite and respectful
candy coat
candy-coated
chivalric
chivalrous
chivalrously
courtly
couth
deferential
deferentially
euphemism for someone/something
hyper-civilized
keep a civil tongue in your headidiom
manner
minced oath
mind/watch your mannersidiom
tactful
tactfully
ultra-civilized
ultra-refined
urbane

Examples of gracefully

gracefully
It should work well in an environment with reasonable disturbances and gracefully degrade in the presence of a partial system failure.
Everyone continues to walk slowly and gracefully and to sing the long flowing lines in appropriate legato style.
This leads very gracefully to the next chapter on cultural issues.
This is an excellent work of scholarship, painstakingly researched, copiously documented and gracefully written.
Growing old gracefully : social dance in the third age.
Oral exams in colleges are given partly to measure the ability to speak accurately and gracefully.
He gracefully coaxes us to abandon a cherished belief: that our actions revolve around willfulness within the conscious universe of the brain/mind.
This carefully researched and gracefully written book has the authority of an inhouse history with none of its complacency.
Sometimes it gracefully flowed, folded and conformed to its host's body.
By contrast, it is implied, localist models do not degrade gracefully, since loss of a given node will render its referent unrepresented.
Each of the three procedures produces smooth trajectories, however, they differ in how gracefully they degrade with unexpected online changes in target orientation.
This is not a particularly original book but it is clearly and gracefully written.
In many societies, from the poorest to the richest, women are expected "to submit gracefully" to the wishes of others.
Older staff facing structural and technological change in the workplace could bow out ' gracefully ', cushioned by lump sum payments and secure pensions.
The strong sense of ground and sky allows the ramps to move gracefully within the space, cantilevered off the wall without appearing to defy gravity.
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