ungraceful
adjective
lacking charm or elegance; awkward.
ungracefully
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a word derived from
ungraceful.
Example Sentences
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But the ferries were aging ungracefully long before that.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 28, 2023
But he stews magnificently, growing old ungracefully, the former hero tragically unable to let go of his ego.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2022
He does away with “Trouble in Tahiti,” whose bitter effervescence collided ungracefully with the thorniness of “A Quiet Place,” and reduced some characters while expanding others, reinstating some arias that had been cut.
From New York Times ● Mar. 10, 2022
What has befallen him, in the intervening decades, we don’t discover, but he has aged, ungracefully so.
From The New Yorker ● May 25, 2015
She flinched, as if she’d just slapped herself with those words, then bounded off, heaving herself ungracefully over the garden fence.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
