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Ungraceful \Un*grace"ful\, a. Not graceful; not marked with ease and dignity; deficient in beauty and elegance; inelegant; awkward; as, ungraceful manners; ungraceful speech. [1913 Webster]

The other oak remaining a blackened and ungraceful trunk. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster] -- Un*grace"ful*ly, adv. -- Un*grace"ful*ness, n. [1913 Webster]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

 

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ungraceful adj : lacking grace; clumsy; "a graceless production of the play"; "his stature low...his bearing ungraceful"- Sir Walter Scott [syn: graceless]

Source: WordNet (r) 2.0
 

 

Ungraceful \Un*grace"ful\, a. Not graceful; not marked with ease and dignity; deficient in beauty and elegance; inelegant; awkward; as, ungraceful manners; ungraceful speech.

The other oak remaining a blackened and ungraceful trunk. --Sir W. Scott. -- Un*grace"ful*ly, adv. -- Un*grace"ful*ness, n.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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