Lacking elegance, skill, or tact; clumsy or rude in manner.
From 'grace' plus the suffix '-less' (without). Emerged in Middle English to describe someone without divine favor or refinement, eventually meaning simply awkward or impolite.
Before 'graceless' just meant clumsy, it meant something much darker—a person without God's grace was spiritually doomed. The word got less dramatic but kept its cutting edge!
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