From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ungraceful \Un*grace"ful\, adjective Not graceful; not marked with ease and dignity; deficient in beauty and elegance; inelegant; awkward; as, ungraceful manners; ungraceful speech.
The other oak remaining a blackened and ungraceful trunk. --Sir W. Scott. -- {Un*grace"ful*ly}, adverb -- {Un*grace"ful*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: lacking grace; clumsy; "a graceless production of the play"; "his stature low...his bearing ungraceful"- Sir Walter Scott [syn: {graceless}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
81 Moby Thesaurus words for "ungraceful": Doric, all thumbs, asymmetrical, awkward, barbaric, barbarous, blunderheaded, blundering, boorish, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, cacophonous, careless, clownish, clumsy, clumsy-fisted, coarse, crude, cumbersome, doggerel, dysphemistic, fingers all thumbs, fumbling, gauche, gawkish, gawky, graceless, gross, ham-fisted, ham-handed, harsh, heavy-handed, hulking, hulky, ill-proportioned, improper, impure, in bad taste, inartistic, inconcinnate, inconcinnous, incorrect, indecorous, inelegant, infelicitous, klutzy, left-hand, left-handed, loutish, low, lubberly, lumbering, lumpish, maladroit, oafish, outlandish, ponderous, rude, sloppy, stiff, tasteless, ugly, unaesthetic, unattractive, uncourtly, uncouth, undignified, uneuphonious, unfelicitous, ungainly, ungraced, unhandy, unharmonious, unlovely, unpolished, unrefined, unseemly, unsymmetrical, unwieldy, vulgar
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