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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Graceful \Grace"ful\, adjective Displaying grace or beauty in form or action; elegant; easy; agreeable in appearance; as, a graceful walk, deportment, speaker, air, act, speech.
High o'er the rest in arms the graceful Turnus rode. --Dryden. -- {Grace"ful*ly}, adverb {Grace"ful*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
gracefully
adverb
1: in a graceful manner; "she swooped gracefully" [ant: {gracelessly}]
2: in a gracious or graceful manner; "he did not have a chance to grow up graciously" [syn: {graciously}] [ant: {ungraciously}, {ungraciously}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
32 Moby Thesaurus words for "gracefully": accommodatingly, aesthetically, artistically, attentively, becomingly, chivalrously, civilly, complacently, complaisantly, courteously, courtly, decently, decorously, deferentially, elegantly, gallantly, genteelly, graciously, in good taste, knightly, mannerly, obligingly, politely, properly, quietly, respectfully, seemly, simply, tastefully, unobtrusively, urbanely, with taste
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