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

gracelessadjective(NOT ATTRACTIVE)

notattractiveinappearance:
Hedescribedthehouseasuglyand graceless.
Heroutwardlygracelessappearancecamouflages herinnerradiance.
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  • Thecentralshoppingstreetsarebrashand graceless.
  • What you have is afunctional, ifvisuallygraceless,design.
  • People willpay$1 million for a graceless,boxyhouseon asoullessstreetbecause itrepresentsasocialgoal.
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
  • excrescence
  • gopping
  • gracelessly
  • hatchet-faced
  • have a face like the back end of a busidiom
  • hideous
  • hideousness
  • plug-ugly
  • pretty
  • pretty-pretty
  • reptilian
  • scrappily
  • unsightly
  • vulgarity
  • vulgarly
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gracelessadjective(NOT POLITE)

notpoliteorshowingrespectorsympathytowardsothers:
a gracelessmanner粗鲁的态度
It was the most gracelessacceptancespeechI haveeverheard.
He isgenerallydisliked,seenby hisfellowplayersasselfish,mean, graceless andarrogant.
More examples
  • Specter'scommentwascharacteristicallygraceless.
  • Hisself-beliefanddesiretowincombineto make him bothstubbornand, attimes, graceless.
  • Whenluckis something youinheritorbuy,grumblingat thecomplaintsof the lessfortunateis graceless.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Rude and cheeky
  • cheekily
  • cheekiness
  • churlish
  • churlishly
  • churlishness
  • coarse
  • coarsely
  • discourteous
  • fruity
  • gall
  • impudent
  • offensively
  • offensiveness
  • potty mouth
  • potty-mouthed
  • presume
  • presumptuously
  • ripe
  • temerity
  • unrepeatable
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gracelessadjective(NOT SMOOTH OR RELAXED)

movingin a way that is notnatural,relaxed, orattractive:
Eloise alwaysmanagedto make herfeellike a gracelesschild.
theawkward, graceless gyrations of hisdancing
gracelessmovements笨拙难看的动作
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  • In one gracelessmotion, hepickedup thetelephoneanddroppedit on thefloor.
  • Islidthe threemetersto thegroundin aseriesof gracelessjerks.
  • When didtheirseductiveswaggerceaseto besexy, andbegintoseemgraceless?
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Moving unsteadily or with difficulty
  • blunder
  • bumble
  • dodder
  • dodderer
  • doddery
  • halting
  • hardly/barely put one foot in front of the otheridiom
  • have two left feetidiom
  • hobble
  • limp
  • lollop
  • lumber
  • reel
  • squeeze
  • straggle
  • teeter
  • toddle
  • toil
  • totter
  • tumble
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Related words

gracelessly
gracelessness
(Definition ofgracelessfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)
graceless
adjective
uk
/ˈɡreɪs.ləs/us
/ˈɡreɪs.ləs/

gracelessadjective(NO BEAUTY)

withoutbeauty
不优美的，不雅致的，难看的
gracelessmovements笨拙难看的动作

gracelessadjective(NOT POLITE)

withoutpoliteness
不懂礼貌的，粗鲁的，无礼的
a gracelessmanner粗鲁的态度

Examplesofgraceless

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