gracelessness

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Recent Examples of gracelessness Not two years later this tower was to collapse precipitately under its own weight into a pyramid of dust and rubble, only to be rebuilt later, in, unaccountably, all its former gracelessness. Literary Hub, 8 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gracelessness
Noun
  • But then, with seemingly on-the-fly artlessness, Laxe’s camera picks a few of the dancers out.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • There are blatantly far-fetched thrillers, brilliant ones, that haunt us for decades in spite of their narrative inelegance or the quality of their gotchas.
    Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Keeping the battery charged avoids this morsel of powertrain inelegance.
    Derek Powell, Car and Driver, 19 Jan. 2022
Noun
  • Generations of agents, therefore, have had to walk a line between bookishness and brutishness.
    Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
  • But the brutishness has merely relocated, to places far more dangerous.
    Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Apologies for any churlishness, but those in and around the club will be relieved to have removed an annoying factoid from Amorim’s 11-month tenure.
    Carl Anka, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Hansen-Love says there is a simplicity and unsophistication to Seydoux’s style.
    Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 May 2022
  • The blunt unsophistication of the pamphlet was an intellectual call to arms.
    Zachary D. Carter, The New Republic, 17 June 2021
Noun
  • The handloom process produces layered, tactile surfaces that celebrate rawness and rusticity.
    Allison Hatfield, Dallas Morning News, 17 Mar. 2026
  • At the center of the ranch is a 5,800-square-foot lodge that combines classic Rocky Mountain rusticity with Old World European elegance.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 22 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • That’s how the game should be remembered, not for the rowdiness in the streets from people who use violence to express happiness.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 12 June 2026
  • The Knicks took a 2-0 series lead just days after completing a 22-point comeback in the fourth quarter, which truly began the rowdiness.
    Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 3 June 2026

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“Gracelessness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gracelessness. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.

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