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词汇 gracelessly
释义 gracelessly
adverb
uk /ˈɡreɪs.ləs.li/ us /ˈɡreɪs.ləs.li/

gracelesslyadverb (WITHOUT BEAUTY)


in a way that lacks beauty: 不优美地,不雅致地,难看地
He marched forward and gracelessly threw himself down on the cushions.他向前走去,毫无风度地倒在垫子上。
We dismounted gracelessly and followed Fathy into the valley temple of the pyramid.我们笨拙地下了马,跟着法西进入了金字塔的山谷神庙。
Only the old can really see how gracelessly the world is aging and all that we have lost.
By 1832 the city spread back gracelessly from the embankment.
"This is getting ridiculous," she whimpered, and sat down gracelessly against the closest pillar.
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
have a face like the back end of a busidiom
hideous
hideousness
homeliness
putridly
reptilian
scrappily
scrappy
stolid
unpretty
unshapely
unsightly
vulgarity
vulgarly

gracelesslyadverb (WITHOUT POLITENESS)


in a way that lacks politeness: 不懂礼貌地,粗鲁地,无礼地
"Come if you want," she said gracelessly, already halfway to the door. “你想来就来吧,”她已经走向门口,毫不客气地说。
It seems odd that he should have behaved so gracelessly.他表现得如此无礼,这似乎很奇怪。
See
graceless
"I suppose you've come to get me?" she said, gracelessly direct, to her sister.
He gracelessly slapped bowls of spaghetti bolognese down in front of us.
She coughed and muttered gracelessly, " Indeed?"
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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

Examples of gracelessly


gracelessly
I think it is a most unfortunate business, and in my view most of the trouble has arisen because it was rather gracelessly and perfunctorily handled.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
Call it -- gracelessly but more accurately -- a medium-sized, loosely linked network of conservative types, with few degrees of separation and similar political aims.
From
Wikipedia

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These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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