ungracefulness

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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

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

They were too habituated to the ungracefulness of an unlettered pride, to bow themselves to address conciliating language either to the people or their foes.

From Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

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

There is great disadvantage, also, in the arrangement of this latter, when room is of value; and excessive ungracefulness in its awkward divisions of the passage walls, or windows.

From The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) by Ruskin, John