What's the difference between classy and graceful?

Classy


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Drogba hit the side-netting with Chelsea's best chance after Salomon Kalou had escaped Antolín Alcaraz to skip to the goal-line, before the visitors finally opened up Wigan with a classy move to take the lead just before the hour mark.
  • (2) We need classy players, players we can trust, players who we know what they will give us, and players who have the desire, motivation and wish to play for England .
  • (3) His first goal was clinical in its execution and classy in its creation but the second was a thing of beauty, a scything volley after he exchanged passes with the substitute Ángel Di María, launching himself into the air and making the perfect connection to volley the ball into the far corner.
  • (4) The 41-year-old could do nothing to prevent City’s classy second as the break neared.
  • (5) It was a brilliantly classy way of making the story go away.
  • (6) Why not sip it from a rather more sophisticated china rim as opposed to sucking it toddler-like through a slit in a plastic lid (stay classy, Seattle).
  • (7) They were also the first modern family to do so, to be informal yet classy, upright yet kind, and, most important, themselves.
  • (8) We then were subjected to the affair of the menu, in which we learnt just what classy, sophisticated affairs Liberal Party fundraisers are.
  • (9) The Shard was proposed, and being by the celebrated Renzo Piano and having a certain classiness in its form, was approved following a public inquiry.
  • (10) After that, much of the first half was all about Japan dominating possession, with the Lionesses struggling to second-guess Aya Miyami’s midfield promptings and sometimes wrongfooted by the classy Rumi Utsugi.
  • (11) Alvaro Negredo, a second-half substitute, rescued a modicum of pride with a classy left-foot strike after 80 minutes but the late flurry, after Jérôme Boateng had been sent off for bringing down Yaya Touré, was a deception.
  • (12) The HTC One is a powerful, feature-rich device that is also beautiful and classy, while Samsung's handset feels like an overpowered children's toy.
  • (13) The first goal was typical Arsenal, classy in its creation and clinical in its execution.
  • (14) On that note, I'd like to offer my congratulations to North Korea on a resilient display, and in possession they were occasionally quite classy too."
  • (15) She spellchecks on Twitter Asked for etiquette tips on how to stay classy online, Stewart advised the audience to try not to misspell on social media.
  • (16) All that savouring their drinks, inhaling bouquets, admiring vintages, being all classy and evolved.
  • (17) His eagerness was refreshing and he might have deserved better 7 Ryan Mason A blur of energy in Spurs’ midfield, driving his team forward, but he must ally that with better composure in his shooting 6 Nabil Bentaleb Looks a classy and comfortable player, working in tandem with Mason, and his influence will grow in time.
  • (18) Kyle Edmund loses in first round at Wimbledon to Adrian Mannarino Read more Facebook Twitter Pinterest Classy … No1 seed Novak Djokovic.
  • (19) It was a goal of beauty, the classy passing and movement untouchable, and it knocked both stuffing and ambition out of the hosts until their stoppage time consolation.
  • (20) doncobaino has this to say: doncobaino 23 April 2014 12:51pm A very classy statement from Moyes.

Graceful


Definition:

  • (a.) Displaying grace or beauty in form or action; elegant; easy; agreeable in appearance; as, a graceful walk, deportment, speaker, air, act, speech.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Though the 54-year-old designer made brief returns to the limelight after his fall from grace, designing a one-off collection for Oscar de la Renta last year , his appointment at Margiela marks a more permanent comeback.
  • (2) Grace has no capacity so she will be very mechanised.” This week Robert Mugabe described Mujuru, his vice-president of a decade, as too simplistic .
  • (3) So much of England possesses this grace and silence.
  • (4) The talk coming from senior Tories – at least some of whom have the grace to squirm when questioned on this topic – suggesting that it's all terribly complicated, that it was a long time ago and that even SS members were, in some ways, themselves victims, is uncomfortably close to the kind of prattle we used to hear from those we called Holocaust revisionists.
  • (5) Additional research: Suzie Worroll, James Browning, Grace Nzita and Nicolas Niarchos How do you feel about the representation of women in British public life?
  • (6) Grace's ascent has also thrown a grenade into the bitter succession battle within Zanu-PF, which Mugabe has divided and ruled for decades.
  • (7) Comet Hale-Bopp graced the night skies in 1997 and was easily visible to the naked eye for months.
  • (8) A s the protests in Turkey continue , spare a thought for the man whose personal tragedy few have the grace to acknowledge – Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
  • (9) With commendable alacrity, meanwhile, the developers at art-game co-operative KOOPmode have already released a downloadable satire on how Facebook might work in 3D , graced with the irresistible tagline: "Scroll Facebook … with your face".
  • (10) It is a fall from grace for an Arsenal team who were top of the table at the turn of the year.
  • (11) My hope is that those who are at the Games take these words and let them echo, with grace, courage and dignity, in whatever way they choose to, because it will make a difference to those participating, and to those watching.
  • (12) In his enforced absence following a dramatic fall from grace that symbolises many of the ills of football’s culture of entitlement, France will be hoping football can again bring the nation together in the most straitened of times.
  • (13) The bomb threat tweet was sent to Freeman, the Europe editor of Time magazine, Catherine Mayer, and the Independent columnist Grace Dent, who took a screen grab of the tweet and posted it for her Twitter followers to see .
  • (14) Waitrose evokes strong opinions: from sniffy derision about the supermarket's perceived airs and graces to expressions of joy from middle-class incomers when their gentrified area is blessed with a branch.
  • (15) Grace Coddington, Dame Helen Mirren, Laura Mvula, and Karen Elson, in the pink duster coat that proved so popular for M&S.
  • (16) The prayer appeals for “grace to debate the issues in this referendum with honesty and openness”.
  • (17) Once he gets that power, he starts relishing that side of his personality.” Claflin is an earthy, unassuming sort; even acting hasn’t given him airs and graces.
  • (18) They wasted an opportunity to show the same grace as Caroline Lucas, by joining an alliance in a seat they would never win.
  • (19) The spectacular ascent that saw him grace the cover of Newsweek as Asian of the Year and become the heir apparent of then prime minister Mahathir Mohamad was met with an equally spectacular crash in 1998, when the two fell out and Anwar was imprisoned for six years on corruption and sodomy charges, claims he repeatedly dismissed as politically motivated.
  • (20) The acarajé at this five-square-metre hole-in-the-wall joint at the top of a bar-packed street close to Mackenzie University are served with grace, charm and warm smiles by Fátima and Miri de Castro.