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词汇 graceless
释义 graceless
adjective
uk /ˈɡreɪs.ləs/ us /ˈɡreɪs.ləs/

gracelessadjective (NOT ATTRACTIVE)


not attractive in appearance: 不优美的,不雅致的,难看的
He described the house as ugly and graceless.
Her outwardly graceless appearance camouflages her inner radiance.
The central shopping streets are brash and graceless.
What you have is a functional, if visually graceless, design.
People will pay $1 million for a graceless, boxy house on a soulless street because it represents a social goal.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Not attractive to look at
back end
be no oil paintingidiom
be not much to look atidiom
bleakly
bleakness
gopping
gracelessly
have a face like the back end of a busidiom
hideous
hideousness
pretty-pretty
putridly
reptilian
scrappily
scrappy
unpoetic
unpretty
unshapely
unsightly
vulgarity

gracelessadjective (NOT POLITE)


not polite or showing respect or sympathy towards others : 不懂礼貌的,粗鲁的,无礼的
a graceless manner粗鲁的态度
It was the most graceless acceptance speech I have ever heard.
He is generally disliked, seen by his fellow players as selfish, mean, graceless and arrogant.
Specter's comment was characteristically graceless.
His self-belief and desire to win combine to make him both stubborn and, at times, graceless.
When luck is something you inherit or buy, grumbling at the complaints of the less fortunate is graceless.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Rude and cheeky
backchat
cheekily
cheekiness
cheeky
churlishly
churlishness
coarse-grained
fruity
gall
indelicate
neanderthal
obnoxiously
obnoxiousness
offensively
offensiveness
pertly
sass
unceremonious
unpleasant
unprintable

gracelessadjective (NOT SMOOTH OR RELAXED )


moving in a way that is not natural, relaxed, or attractive: 笨拙的;别扭的;不灵活的;难看的
Eloise always managed to make her feel like a graceless child.
the awkward, graceless gyrations of his dancing
graceless movements
In one graceless motion, he picked up the telephone and dropped it on the floor.
I slid the three meters to the ground in a series of graceless jerks.
When did their seductive swagger cease to be sexy, and begin to seem graceless?
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Moving unsteadily or with difficulty
blunder
bumble
dodder
dodderer
doddery
favour
halting
hobble
inflexibly
limp
lollop
lumber
lumpily
stumblingly
teeter
toddle
toil
totter
trundle
tumble

Related words


gracelessly
gracelessness

Examples of graceless


graceless
How are we to take this graceless musical gesture?
I deliberately sought to give him an opportunity, which in the somewhat graceless way which he sometimes chooses to adopt, he tossed aside.
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I was rather dismayed at the rather graceless opening remarks in another place.
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However, it would be wrong to be graceless.
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I do not say it was a concession; that would sound graceless.
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In flight, these birds travel in pairs creating a large amount of noise because of their rough, graceless flying technique.
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He was personally genial, a dark, bulky man, somewhat heavy and graceless in aspect in his later years.
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Most letters are angular and have graceless features.
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I have asked grace at a graceless face.
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His portraits were deficient in grace, his draperies poor and ill cast, and he showed no ability to overcome the graceless stiffness which then prevailed in dress.
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