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graceless

 adjective
     
grace‧less
1 not being polite, especially when someone has been kind to you:
He was bad-tempered and graceless in defeat.
2 moving or doing something in a way that seems awkward [≠ graceful]:
The soldiers were graceless with their heavy packs and helmets.
3 something that is graceless is unattractive and unpleasant to look at [≠ graceful]:
graceless architecture
—gracelessly adverb
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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