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
  • But the brutishness has merely relocated, to places far more dangerous.
    Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Likewise, young Waller proves a revelation, capable of communicating Danny’s vulnerability and brutishness on the turn of a dime.
    Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 7 Sep. 2025
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
  • 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
  • The crowds, the rowdiness, the getting there and back can give you pause.
    Moira McCarthy, Boston Herald, 1 Mar. 2026
  • The rowdiness represented the first wave of an Alaskan storm that drew extra moisture from the subtropics.
    Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Feb. 2026

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“Gracelessness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gracelessness. Accessed 11 Mar. 2026.

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