Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an ungraceful manner; awkwardly; inelegantly.

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  • adverb In an ungraceful manner.

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  • adverb without grace; rigidly

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Examples

  • She grows amazingly long braids, which four years later, she uses as rope to lasso a nearby tree and swing to safety … ungracefully, for that touch of humor and realism.

    *Rapunzel’s Revenge — Recommended » Comics Worth Reading 2010

  • Thereafter only the fit were chosen, and very ungracefully did they respond.

    THE SCORN OF WOMEN 2010

  • She could not do anything ungracefully, but that did not prevent her improving upon nature a bit, when she reached forth and deftly snuffed the red wick from the midst of the yellow flame.

    Jack London Play:The Scorn of Women 2010

  • Politicians face these exits too -- and I don't mean the kind of premature one Anthony Weiner made so ungracefully this month.

    Vivian Diller, Ph.D.: Graceful Exits: Knowing When to Move On Ph.D. Vivian Diller 2011

  • She could not do anything ungracefully, but that did not prevent her improving upon nature a bit, when she reached forth and deftly snuffed the red wick from the midst of the yellow flame.

    THE SCORN OF WOMEN 2010

  • Thereafter only the fit were chosen, and very ungracefully did they respond.

    Jack London Play:The Scorn of Women 2010

  • It will be great fun to watch him flap around for a few more months, before he falls, ungracefully, out of the limelight.

    CNN Poll: Americans think Sanford should resign 2009

  • However he is awoken from his sleep as Picts attack the Roman fort, and we see the first Roman soldier going down rather ungracefully as a weapon is thrust upwards from below to take out his weapon, with the rest of him following suit.

    Filmstalker: Sneak peak at Neil Marhsall's Centurion 2010

  • I think that's the only way to defuse the risk that Hillary desides to lose ungracefully, which at this point almost seems likely.

    Vilsack says it's over 2008

  • She trudged ungracefully to the shed and grasped the latch.

    The Lost Children Carolyn Cohagan 2010

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