ungracefulness

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The one in the etching referred to is both physically weak and a bad horsewoman to boot—sitting her horse with all the ungracefulness of a sack of flour.

From English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. by Everitt, Graham

And this change came about without expostulations, reproach, or explanation, just by the turning of a key; and even this was the merest symbol, employed once only, to save the ungracefulness of words.

From Fraternity by Galsworthy, John

The fact that he was tall profited him nothing, for it merely emphasised the extreme ungracefulness of his figure.

From Stories by English Authors: The Orient (Selected by Scribners) by Roberts, Morley

On a subject of so much importance, and where it is so desirable to have clear and definite ideas, the rhetorical ungracefulness of repetition is of little moment, when this repetition serves our great end.

From A Review of Edwards's by Tappan, Henry Philip

Mr. Dillwyn could see by her manner, he thought, that she would be glad if Mrs. Wishart would come in and take him off her hands; but there was no awkwardness or ungracefulness or unreadiness.

From Nobody by Warner, Susan