graceless• Many of the gloatingobituaries were graceless and did no one any credit.• The porter's speech disappears, for example; and Malcolm is at least as ugly and graceless as the tyrant he replaces.• But suddenly, the difference between the overwhelmingbeauty of the tiger and the graceless body of the decaying fly seem no longer.• Michael grows into fatherhood and bachelorhood with gracelessease.• He was tall and lean in the angular, gracelessmountaineer style.• So when they held dinner-parties Scarletskimped on the smoked salmon, and Brian rebuked her for her graceless parsimony.• She began to swim with her nervy, gracelessstroke and Nick watched her sympathetically.• I managed a slow graceless turn as I skied down the hill for the first time.