How to Use graceless in a Sentence

graceless

adjective

• Her writing can be graceless and awkward at times.
• Just look at all the graceless work enabled by pixels, all the dull and droning selfies, all the videos shot in portrait mode.
  — Philip Martin, Arkansas Online, 27 Sep. 2020
• Those tend to be drab, self-important, graceless and lacking in nuance.
  — Adrian Daub, New Republic, 14 Feb. 2018
• Is Trump’s decision to bring Kelly’s son into the debate tacky and graceless?
  — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 17 Oct. 2017
• This act — this graceless, puny act — insults both the democratic ideal and the sporting ideal.
  — Marcus Hayes, Philly.com, 4 June 2018
• Yes, here in the academy we dance, not in a graceless, carnal, or disorderly way, but body and soul together, so as to bring the numbers to life.
  — Ron Charles, The Denver Post, 24 Feb. 2017
• Still worse, Coes' graceless prose is worthy of a grudging C- in a college freshman writing class.
  — Bruce Desilva, Dallas News, 30 July 2019
• Lin tore down the graceless expansions, preserving only the shell of the original Lord & Hewlett building.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2021
• What’s presumably meant to be a dig at the cultural impact of these atrocities feels tonally graceless.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 9 June 2017
• Now that the exquisite corpse of a project, too, is complete, the upshot is graceless but surprisingly satisfying.
  — Curbed, 27 July 2022
• Why were the telecast's transitions from sobriety to levity made to feel as graceless as possible?
  — The Washington Post, cleveland.com, 29 Aug. 2017
• The disaster, in this case, is 2019’s Summer of Sequelae, as dismal a movie season as audiences can remember as one spinoff has followed the other with a graceless thud.
  — The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 20 June 2019
• The third season, like its predecessors, sometimes relies on graceless provocations that never mature in a way that advances the story.
  — Yasmine Alsayyad, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2022
• The graceless, boxy, five-story buildings here were christened Khrushchevki, after Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet leader who ordered their construction.
  — Neil MacFarquhar, New York Times, 14 May 2017
• This, where many oilfield workers live in the booming Permian Basin oil fields, is the graceless side of the energy economy, a cluttered zone of mobile homes, oil tanks, service trucks, salvage yards, and endless commercial metal buildings.
  — John MacCormack, ExpressNews.com, 2 Sep. 2019
• That team is leading the championship race again, but its superiority belies a turbulent, graceless campaign that featured five defeats before the coronavirus brought the season to a halt.
  — Tariq Panja, New York Times, 9 May 2020
• Ali’s desperation breeds a painful solitude underscored by his initially graceless homecoming.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 May 2022

Last Updated: 5 Dec 2024