graceful
adjective
characterized by elegance or beauty of form, manner, movement, or speech; elegant: a graceful reply.
gracefulness
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a word derived from
graceful.
Example Sentences
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Unlike most samurai films, the swordplay here isn’t based in air-defying gracefulness.
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2023
For most of us, our gracefulness or lack of it are fairly stable states.
From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2022
The film has a mordant sense of humor, a hypnotic gracefulness and a startling emotional sincerity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2022
Many people are drawn to butterflies because of their beauty, their gracefulness, the ephemeral nature of their lives, and because of the seemingly magical transformation from caterpillar to adult butterfly.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 18, 2022
I played hard while they played easy, with a gracefulness and effortlessness that I lacked.
From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore
