How to Use graceless in a Sentence
graceless
adjective
- Her writing can be graceless and awkward at times.
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Just look at all the graceless work enabled by pixels, all the dull and droning selfies, all the videos shot in portrait mode.
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Philip Martin,
Arkansas Online,
27 Sep. 2020
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Those tend to be drab, self-important, graceless and lacking in nuance.
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Adrian Daub,
New Republic,
14 Feb. 2018
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Is Trump’s decision to bring Kelly’s son into the debate tacky and graceless?
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David A. Graham,
The Atlantic,
17 Oct. 2017
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This act — this graceless, puny act — insults both the democratic ideal and the sporting ideal.
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Marcus Hayes,
Philly.com,
4 June 2018
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Yes, here in the academy we dance, not in a graceless, carnal, or disorderly way, but body and soul together, so as to bring the numbers to life.
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Ron Charles,
The Denver Post,
24 Feb. 2017
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Still worse, Coes' graceless prose is worthy of a grudging C- in a college freshman writing class.
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Bruce Desilva,
Dallas News,
30 July 2019
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Lin tore down the graceless expansions, preserving only the shell of the original Lord & Hewlett building.
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Los Angeles Times,
6 May 2021
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What’s presumably meant to be a dig at the cultural impact of these atrocities feels tonally graceless.
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Sophie Gilbert,
The Atlantic,
9 June 2017
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Why were the telecast's transitions from sobriety to levity made to feel as graceless as possible?
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The Washington Post,
cleveland.com,
29 Aug. 2017
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The disaster, in this case, is 2019’s Summer of Sequelae, as dismal a movie season as audiences can remember as one spinoff has followed the other with a graceless thud.
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The Washington Post,
The Mercury News,
20 June 2019
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The third season, like its predecessors, sometimes relies on graceless provocations that never mature in a way that advances the story.
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Yasmine Alsayyad,
The New Yorker,
11 Oct. 2022
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The graceless, boxy, five-story buildings here were christened Khrushchevki, after Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet leader who ordered their construction.
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Neil MacFarquhar,
New York Times,
14 May 2017
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This, where many oilfield workers live in the booming Permian Basin oil fields, is the graceless side of the energy economy, a cluttered zone of mobile homes, oil tanks, service trucks, salvage yards, and endless commercial metal buildings.
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John MacCormack,
ExpressNews.com,
2 Sep. 2019
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That team is leading the championship race again, but its superiority belies a turbulent, graceless campaign that featured five defeats before the coronavirus brought the season to a halt.
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Tariq Panja,
New York Times,
9 May 2020
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Ali’s desperation breeds a painful solitude underscored by his initially graceless homecoming.
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Lovia Gyarkye,
The Hollywood Reporter,
19 May 2022
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