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Recent Examples of gracioso
With Edusei’s fastidious beat, the orchestra played with hair-trigger precision, and a huge dynamic range, in Ravel’s Alborada del gracioso.
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Dallas News, 8 Jan. 2022
Maurice Ravel’s Alborada del gracioso and Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2.
—Dallas News, 10 Jan. 2022
The same praise could be heaped upon Maurice Ravel’s Alborada del gracioso, which opened the evening.
—Paul Hodgins, Orange County Register, 19 May 2017
Dallas News, 8 Jan. 2022
Maurice Ravel’s Alborada del gracioso and Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2.
—Dallas News, 10 Jan. 2022
The same praise could be heaped upon Maurice Ravel’s Alborada del gracioso, which opened the evening.
—Paul Hodgins, Orange County Register, 19 May 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gracioso
Noun
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Bailey, deft and playful, chooses to be his own antic, a droll and often hostile jester.—
Helen Shaw,
New Yorker,
17 Apr. 2025
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Tonight, these jesters are turned into rock stars in the heart of Midtown.—
Eric Francisco,
Rolling Stone,
1 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan reunited to revisit their body-swapping antics in Disney's Freakier Friday, but director Nisha Ganatra reveals to Entertainment Weekly that her vision for the sequel also involved a cameo from another Hollywood icon that ultimately didn't come together.—
Joey Nolfi,
EW.com,
29 Apr. 2025
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Bailey, deft and playful, chooses to be his own antic, a droll and often hostile jester.—
Helen Shaw,
New Yorker,
17 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Her goal is to start a women’s consciousness-raising group, and her efforts have brought together a motley, inquisitive quintet.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
20 Feb. 2025
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Kaan kaan wu, with its motley of melds, is where these two tiles from different suits can be used in a clean-sweeping hand.—
Rudy Lee,
New York Times,
17 Oct. 2023
Noun
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Instead of the buffo landlord Benoit coming for the rent, the four Bohemians impersonate him themselves in a skit that was a little beyond the L.A. cast’s comic skills.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
15 Sep. 2019
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Alessandro Corbelli brought seasoned basso-buffo authority to the manipulative Alfonso.—
John Von Rhein,
chicagotribune.com,
18 Feb. 2018
Cite this Entry
“Gracioso.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gracioso. Accessed 15 May. 2025.
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