1 in a way that lacks politeness:
Only the old can really see how gracelessly the world is aging and all that we have lost.
By 1832 the city spread back gracelessly from the embankment.
"This is getting ridiculous," she whimpered, and sat down gracelessly against the closest pillar.
"I suppose you've come to get me?" she said, gracelessly direct, to her sister.
He gracelessly slapped bowls of spaghetti bolognese down in front of us.
I think it is a most unfortunate business, and in my view most of the trouble has arisen because it was rather gracelessly and perfunctorily handled.
Call it -- gracelessly but more accurately -- a medium-sized, loosely linked network of conservative types, with few degrees of separation and similar political aims.
