These styles are the last word in ungraceful and unflattering, yet I see so many older ladies sporting them. From Wordnik.com. [Modest Feminine Dress From the Pages of 1990 Victoria Magazine] Reference
Religious people haven't changed since Jesus' time: They still preach an "ungraceful" gospel...which is no gospel at all because gospel means good news. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-08-01] Reference
All that work for that ungraceful, undignified end. From Wordnik.com. [Ode to the Double-Crossed Lackey in 'Thunderball'] Reference
The dancing children were bright-looking, and not ungraceful. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859] Reference
It is when running that he exposes his only ungraceful point. From Wordnik.com. [New National Fourth Reader] Reference
She had been clumsy, ungraceful, had failed -- that was enough. From Wordnik.com. [The Hippodrome] Reference
The anchor is of the second, somewhat ungraceful, pattern in use. From Wordnik.com. [Catalogue of the William Loring Andrews Collection of Early Books in the Library of Yale University] Reference
Many of the statues appear to our eyes very stiff and ungraceful. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
European frock, with a most ungraceful sort of bib tied before them. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823] Reference
A waist really too large was less ungraceful than a waist too small. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883] Reference
Domestic pottery is coarse, ungraceful, and frequently ribbed on the outside. From Wordnik.com. [How to Observe in Archaeology] Reference
It would be difficult to invent a costume more awkward and ungraceful than this. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867] Reference
The minister was a man of moderate abilities and somewhat ungraceful appearance. From Wordnik.com. [The First Soprano] Reference
Now more than ever, aging gracefully means enduring your share of ungraceful procedures. From Wordnik.com. [Can Your Skin Be Saved?] Reference
Nothing can be more ungraceful than such a dress, which, however, Alete wore with grace. From Wordnik.com. [International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850] Reference
But she was not ungraceful either in manner or dress, or in her evident desire to please. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
His hair was lank; his figure was attenuated and ungraceful; he wore his clothes awkwardly. From Wordnik.com. [Cruel Barbara Allen From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.)] Reference
A man who is constrained, uneasy, and ungraceful, can spoil the happiness of a dozen people. From Wordnik.com. [Manners and Social Usages] Reference
Externally the building is a plain, but not ungraceful structure, of stone, brick, and stucco. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864] Reference
Of course, we expect the Yeohlee brand to play with forms and fabrics without being ungraceful. From Wordnik.com. [Designers Reclaim Individual Voices] Reference
Also avoid ungraceful position and awkward attitude, but cultivate grace and beauty in herself. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
Percell's melody, though often original and expressive, is nevertheless more often rude and ungraceful. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843] Reference
The additions are not ungraceful, but they encumber somewhat the Attic neatness and simplicity of the original. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
The removal of the last mentioned is a universal practice, for hair on the eyebrows is considered very ungraceful. From Wordnik.com. [The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir] Reference
Their lines, while forbidding any thought of speed, are not ungraceful, and eminently suitable for weight carrying. From Wordnik.com. [Life and sport in China Second Edition] Reference
Every thing my eye rests on is harsh and ungraceful, because, having passed through the seven-times heated furnace. From Wordnik.com. [The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2] Reference
Their dress is the most unbecoming and ungraceful it is possible to conceive, and yet, we are bound to admit, most refined. From Wordnik.com. [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference
The lower part of the garment on the left side bulges out so far that it makes the woman's figure ungraceful in appearance. From Wordnik.com. [The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir] Reference
Shy men and shy races are ungraceful and undemonstrative, because, as regards society at large, they are comparatively unsociable. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
His voice and manner were scarcely less prepossessing; the one was as abrupt and clamorous, as the other was rustic and ungraceful. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844] Reference
Shoes of high heels and narrow toes are equally bad, for the wearer is plunged forward in an ungraceful and line-destroying attitude. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman Beautiful or, The Art of Beauty Culture] Reference
There is a hint of youth in this ungraceful jacket to be sure, but it is not especially attractive in its suggestion of youthfulness. From Wordnik.com. [What Dress Makes of Us] Reference
Colors and forms and modes, in themselves graceful or beautiful, can become ungraceful and ridiculous simply through inappropriateness. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866] Reference
So that his mincing affectation is not merely ungraceful, but is a sign of an inward taint, which may prove fatal to the whole character. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860] Reference
The horses, however, are the better part of the two groups; the goddesses being too tall in proportion and heavy and ungraceful in build. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876] Reference
The dancing was poor, consisting chiefly of ungraceful motions of the hands and forearms; the singing pleasing, harmonious but monotonous. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
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