social graces
Example Sentences
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By the time Alfred left for Cambridge to join his two elder brothers, he was a skilled poet, but he lacked all social graces.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
Their linguistic skills, knowledge base and social graces will soon become flawless, endowed with perfect recall, competence, poise, reasoning abilities and intelligence.
From Scientific American • Sep. 8, 2023
John doesn’t know how to whisper, or how to lie, which means he also inconveniently takes others at their word; he lacks social graces, obsessing about a boat in the midst of a funeral.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2022
We can vicariously experience what it would be like to leave behind all the constraints of everyday living, including the obligation to observe social graces and treat others with consideration.
From Salon • Aug. 8, 2021
They worry about him all the time now—about his moods, his appearance, his lack of social graces.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
