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
Vargas Llosa’s air of debonair intellectual only added to the package: a writer for the New Statesman once described him as “tall, good-looking and with the social graces of the Latin American elite.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2025
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
Especially now, when we all feel that we've lost our social graces — maybe they're off somewhere hanging out with the five hundred hair ties we've also lost over the last ten years.
From Salon • Nov. 18, 2021
Her gestures, her voice, her social graces had been so well studied and cultivated that she could have fooled anyone who wasn’t familiar with her past.
From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez
