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

Christopher, a young would-be novelist, has the social graces of a jackhammer.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 12, 2023

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

Dear Miss Manners: I was raised in a world of social graces where you did not ask point-blank questions, except among family or very close friends.

From Washington Post • Feb. 14, 2023

Theo and Vincent are getting along so much better now, but upon meeting him for the first time, Dries is struck by Vincent's eccentricity, his lack of social graces.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman