Graceless

(adj.) lacking grace; clumsy; 'a graceless production of the play'; 'his stature low...his bearing ungraceful'- Sir Walter Scott .

(adj.) lacking graciousness; 'a totally graceless hostess' .

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• She cried, with her clasped hands lifted above her head, that it would kill their father if he ever knew it; and fell down at Tip's graceless feet. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• You know I'm such a graceless dog that these religious aspects of such subjects don't edify me much. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Mrs. Bounderby, though a graceless person, of the world worldly, I feel the utmost interest, I assure you, in what you tell me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• A shattered graceless fellow, stretched at his length here, and next to nothing for you when you are a young widow. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Sharp watched this graceless bedside with indomitable patience. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• And so, a graceless orphan, training to be a singing girl, carries it, by that Frederick Dorrit's agency, against me, and I am humbled and deceived! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Twas a graceless trick--such a handsome girl, too. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.

校对:莱斯利