graceless
/ˈɡɹeɪsləs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.02 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Without grace.
adj
adj
Without the grace of God.
Example Sentences
- "Such dutie as the ſubject owes the Prince, / Euen ſuch a woman oweth to her husband: / And when ſhe is froward, peeuiſh, ſullen, ſowre, / And not obedient to his honeſt will, / What is ſhe but a foule contending Rebell / And graceleſſe Traitor to her louing Lord?"
- "For Modes of Faith let graceleſs Zealots fight; / His can't be wrong whoſe Life is in the right."
- "Not by one measure mayst thou mete our love; / For how should I be loved as I love thee? — / I, graceless, joyless, lacking absolutely / All gifts that with thy queenship best behove; — […]"
- "There was dancing now on the canvas in the garden; old men pushing young girls backward in eternal graceless circles, superior couples holding each other tortuously, fashionably and keeping in the corners— […]"
- "Current toys are made of a graceless material, the product of chemistry, not of nature."
- "1995, Susan Sontag, "The Art of Fiction No. 143," Interview with Edward Hirsch published in The Paris Review, No. 137, Winter, 1995, p. 7, [Hirsch:] Do you mind being called an intellectual? [Sontag:] Well, one never likes to be called anything. […] I suppose there will always be a presumption of graceless oddity—especially if one is a woman."
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Inflected Forms
more graceless (comparative)
most graceless (superlative)