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Gracelessly (Adverb)

In a graceless manner; "she moves rather gracelessly".

She walked into the room gracelessly, bumping into the coffee table.
The dancer twirled across the stage, her long skirt flying, but landed rather clumsily, moving the rest of the choreography gracelessly.
He climbed out of the car, and in doing so, stepped awkwardly on his own foot, getting out gracelessly.
The large man squeezed into the small doorway, maneuvering through it very gruffly and moved, overall, gracelessly.
She slipped on the ice and subsequently slid down to the ground, not being able to stop or fall, but doing so, somehow still, actually getting up very stiffly and dusting herself off, moving very stiffly and awkwardly, the overall incident indeed happening, rather clumsily and in general moving actually quite, definitely very awkwardly and clumsily as well as awkwardly indeed so indeed very gracelessly.

Without grace; rigidly; "they moved woodenly".

The awkward dancer spun grudgingly around the floor, executing her steps gracelessly to the disapproving gaze of the judges.
Moving gruffly, he lifted the tray and shoved it in front of the customer with a rough 'serve yourself' expression, helping out gracelessly.
Having taken hours to learn their lines, the actors read their scripts grumpily, performing grudgingly on stage and speaking their lines gracelessly.
Their choreographer gave up in desperation, her dancers were still stiff-ly moving across the floor in sync with one another, but steps performed gruffly, and all dance moves done gracelessly.
The football team sprinted jerkily towards the player in possession of the ball, stiff movements demonstrated their early hours rigorous practice didn't end up rendering them more agile but rather more clumsy moving gracelessly.