| 词汇 | graceless |
| 释义 | gracelessWord family adjectivegracedgracefulgracelessadverbgracefullygracelesslynoungracefulnessgracelessnessgrace grace·less /ˈɡreɪsləs/ adjectiveadj 1 RUDE/IMPOLITEnot being polite, especially when someone has been kind to you 粗鲁的，不懂礼貌的 He was bad-tempered and graceless in defeat. 他输了之后脾气暴躁，毫无风度。 2 CLUMSYmoving or doing something in a way that seems awkward 〔动作或行为〕笨拙的，不优雅的 OPP graceful The soldiers were graceless with their heavy packs and helmets. 士兵们背着沉重的背包，戴着钢盔，样子很笨拙。 3 UGLYsomething that is graceless is unattractive and unpleasant to look at 〔外观〕难看的，不优美的 OPP graceful graceless architecture 难看的建筑 —gracelessly adverbadv Examples from the Corpus graceless• Many of the gloating obituaries 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 overwhelming beauty of the tiger and the graceless body of the decaying fly seem no longer.• Michael grows into fatherhood and bachelorhood with graceless ease.• He was tall and lean in the angular, graceless mountaineer style.• So when they held dinner-parties Scarlet skimped on the smoked salmon, and Brian rebuked her for her graceless parsimony.• She began to swim with her nervy, graceless stroke and Nick watched her sympathetically.• I managed a slow graceless turn as I skied down the hill for the first time. |
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