gracelessly

From Middle English gracelessly; equivalent to graceless +‎ -ly.

gracelessly (comparative more gracelessly, superlative most gracelessly)

1. In a graceless manner
   • 1595, Philip Sidney, An Apologie for Poetrie‎^[1]:

     The French, in his whole language, hath not one word that hath his accent in the last syllable, saving two, called antepenultima; and little more, hath the Spanish, and therefore very gracelessly may they use dactiles.

   • 1965, Wole Soyinka, The Interpreters, New York: Africana Publishing, published 1972, Part One, Chapter 8, p. 116:

     Barabbas jumped down the eroded slope towards the water and slipped the last few feet gracelessly on his arse.

   • 1968, William Trevor, “The General's Day”, in Collected Stories, Penguin, published 1992, page 30:

     As he finished he heard the footsteps of the woman who daily came to work for him. They were slow, dragging footsteps implying the bulk they gracelessly shifted.

From graceles +‎ -ly.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡraːs(ə)lɛːsliː/, /ˈɡraːs(ə)lɛsliː/

gracelessly

1. (Late Middle English, rare) Lacking God's beneficence.

• English: gracelessly

• “grācelēslī, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 14 May 2018.