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ungraceful

 
Dictionary: Un·grace·ful
 
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a.

Not graceful; not marked with ease and dignity; deficient in beauty and elegance; inelegant; awkward; as, ungraceful manners; ungraceful speech.

The other oak remaining a blackened and ungraceful trunk.
Sir W. Scott.

-- Un·grace·ful·ly, adv. -- Un·grace·ful·ness, n.

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adjective

    Lacking dexterity and grace in physical movement: awkward, clumsy, gawky, graceless, inept, lumpish, maladroit, ungainly. Slang klutzy. Idioms: all thumbs. See ability/inability.

 
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IN BRIEF: adj. - Lacking refinement.

 
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The adjective has one meaning:

Meaning #1: lacking grace; clumsy
  Synonym: graceless

 
 
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