ungraceful

[uhn-greys-fuhl]

adjective

1. lacking charm or elegance; awkward.

Other Word Forms

• ungracefully adverb
• ungracefulness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of ungraceful¹

First recorded in 1660–70; un- ¹ + graceful

Example Sentences

Rusty brown hair scrambled every which way on her head, and she walked with an ungraceful limp.

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Occasionally, the dialogue is ungraceful in connecting the lines between past and present.

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"Is there an ungraceful way to age? We don’t have an option of course. No one has an option about aging, so it’s not a positive or a negative thing, it just is."

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And that ungraceful exit, my friends, is what makes the loss of Grapes far less sour to bear.

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Hill’s two-inning start, though ungraceful and arduous, was, by all accounts, a positive.

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