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n. - An unpleasant lack of poise in carriage or form or movement or expression.

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  • A cheerful wood-fire blazed in the capacious hearth; a little at one side an old - fashioned table, with richly-carved legs, was placed — destined, no doubt, to receive the...
  • She was dancing with her husband -- a pitiful spectacle, for the lawyer must be pushed through the dance as he were a doll, with monstrous ungracefulness, and no sense...
  • And this to eyes trained to eschew ungracefulness and that abhorred a vacuum as much as nature is said to do!
  • The fact that he was tall profited him nothing, for it merely emphasised the extreme ungracefulness of his figure.
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