gracelessness

  • 11stiffness — noun 1. the physical property of being inflexible and hard to bend (Freq. 1) • Derivationally related forms: ↑stiff • Hypernyms: ↑inelasticity 2. the property of moving with pain or difficulty (Freq. 1) he awoke with a painful stiffness in his… …

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  • 12graceless — adjective Date: 14th century 1. lacking in divine grace ; immoral, unregenerate 2. a. lacking a sense of propriety < a graceless accusation > b. devoid of attractive qualities 3. artistically inept or unbeautiful < graceless dancing > • …

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  • 13graceless — gracelessly, adv. gracelessness, n. /grays lis/, adj. 1. lacking grace, pleasing elegance, or charm. 2. without any sense of right or propriety. [1325 75; ME; see GRACE, LESS] * * * …

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  • 14inelegance — noun The state or quality of being inelegant. The inelegance of the ugly duckling stood in contrast to its ultimate fate as a swan. Syn: awkwardness, bluntness, clumsiness, gracelessness, homeliness …

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  • 15bad taste — Synonyms and related words: Babbittry, Gothicism, barbarism, barbarousness, bombasticness, bourgeois taste, cacology, cacophony, camp, campiness, clumsiness, coarseness, crudeness, cumbrousness, dysphemism, gracelessness, grossness, harshness,&#8230; …

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  • 16barbarism — Synonyms and related words: Gothicism, Irish bull, Neanderthalism, age of ignorance, animality, antiphrasis, bad taste, barbarity, barbarousness, benightedness, benightment, bestiality, bombasticness, brutality, brutishness, cacology, cacophony,&#8230; …

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  • 17cacophony — Synonyms and related words: Babel, Gothicism, agitation, atonalism, atonality, bad taste, barbarism, barbarousness, bedlam, bluster, bombasticness, brawl, broil, brouhaha, cacology, chaos, clinker, clumsiness, coarseness, commotion, confusion of&#8230; …

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  • 18coarseness — Synonyms and related words: Adam, Gothicism, animalism, animality, bad manners, bad taste, barbarism, barbarousness, baseness, beastliness, bestiality, bodily size, body, bombasticness, brutality, brutishness, bulk, cacology, cacophony,&#8230; …

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  • 19disfigurement — Synonyms and related words: birthmark, blackhead, bleb, blemish, blister, bowlegs, bulla, cacophony, camelback, check, cicatrix, cleft palate, clubfoot, clumsiness, comedo, crack, crater, craze, crookback, defacement, defect, deformation,&#8230; …

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  • 20harshness — Synonyms and related words: Babel, Gothicism, Spartanism, abominability, abruptness, acerbity, acidity, acidulousness, acridity, acrimony, acuteness, aggressiveness, animality, aphonia, artificial voice, asperity, astringency, atrocity, austerity …

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