ungracefulness

Example Sentences

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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

We ought, however, rather to envy the deep seriousness which could not be moved from dwelling on the real power of the scene by any ungracefulness or familiarity of circumstance.

From Giotto and his works in Padua An Explanatory Notice of the Series of Woodcuts Executed for the Arundel Society After the Frescoes in the Arena Chapel by Ruskin, John

He descanted with some eloquence upon the wickedness of lacing, the ungracefulness of artificial forms and the beauty of her own wholly natural grace.

From In Old Kentucky by Marshall, Edward

Every ungracefulness must have shown its full deformity, with no possibility of disguise; every angle must have been aggravated, and every untoward movement made doubly fatal.

From A Red Wallflower by Warner, Susan

Nevertheless so clumsy a beau, that thou seemest to me to owe thyself a double spite, making thy ungracefulness appear the more ungraceful, by thy remarkable tawdriness, when thou art out of mourning.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7 by Richardson, Samuel