gracioso
Americannoun
plural
graciososnoun
Etymology
Origin of gracioso
1640–50; < Spanish: amiable, gracious, spirited (noun use of adj.) < Latin grātiōsus gracious
Example Sentences
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Antes de que González Cortez se pueda dormir, repasa videos de su padre en los que habla ruidosamente, es gracioso y simplemente disfruta de su calidez.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 5, 2021
“Yo no sé qué es más gracioso: lo que está pasando en mío departamento o mirar Fox News y oír hablar a Donald Trump”.
From Washington Times • Sep. 5, 2015
Ravel's "Bolero," "Rapsodie espagnole," "Alborada del gracioso" and "Pavane pour une infant défunte" round out the program.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 11, 2013
The 'Lying Lover' in Alarcon's play is a Don Garcia fresh from his studies in Salamanca, and Steele's Latine first appears there as a Tristan, the gracioso of old Spanish comedy.
From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph
The conductor moved about in most amiable gracioso from one seaside beauty to another, after having first brushed into order his hair which had been blown about by the sea-breeze.
From Withered Leaves. Vol. I. (of III) A Novel by Gottschall, Rudolf von
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