What's the difference between graceless and grapeless?

Graceless


Definition:

  • (a.) Wanting in grace or excellence; departed from, or deprived of, divine grace; hence, depraved; corrupt.
  • (a.) Unfortunate. Cf. Grace, n., 4.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After two or three years of this, he brought his investigation to a graceless close.
  • (2) But the scramble to cover what has become the biggest sport story this year has inspired some graceless behaviour.
  • (3) "There's no ombré.”) His acceptance speeches have been on the graceless side, cracking jokes about body waxing and reminding everyone that he took a six-year break from acting to front a rock band.
  • (4) The opposition leader, Bill Shorten, described the address as “weird and graceless”.
  • (5) But we consume it in graceless fashion: in bulk and at the cheapest price.
  • (6) I suspect he would be mortified by what is happening, and by a Tory party leader behaving very gracelessly towards him.” Few in the party still carry a torch for the coalition years, but the enduring popularity of Cameron in this corner of Oxfordshire is something that the Lib Dems feel they might be able to capitalise on.
  • (7) Farage wore the look of a man ground down by repetition; a man who knew that every aside, every waggled eyebrow, every non-joke that sounded like a joke because it was inexplicably delivered in a jokey see-saw cadence, would be greeted by the Ukip faithful with the same graceless “weeeeey” noise that daytime drinkers make in crap pubs whenever the barmaid drops a glass.
  • (8) From the outside, it looks like an enormous upturned concrete bucket, an example of graceless 70s architecture.
  • (9) The ruling National Party, soon exhausted by the demoralising business of negotiating itself out of power, grew increasingly tetchy and graceless.
  • (10) But now Brad Evans is penalized for a rather graceless looking kick at his marker and the Rapids can get the ball out.
  • (11) I know this has been said before by many others, but it's been done so gracelessly and with so little humour.
  • (12) A looping bronzed band swoops and swirls up and down the building, gouging out great gashes here and there, cutting slippery fissures into the facade, before flaring out in a graceless canopy above the street.
  • (13) The opposition leader, Bill Shorten , mocked Abbott for a “weird and graceless” speech, saying the prime minister had used his moment in front of the world’s most important leaders to complain that Australians did not support a co-payment on visits to the doctor.
  • (14) In order that patients may be served properly, the smile must be understood, recorded, and analyzed so that desirable aspects may be preserved and graceless components returned to attractiveness.
  • (15) So I really hope the result, however gracelessly or grudgingly, will be accepted by the loser.” If it is not, however, chaos could ensure.
  • (16) But the DWP, which has form in this regard, last week raised the bar in terms of institutional gracelessness.

Grapeless


Definition:

  • (a.) Wanting grapes or the flavor of grapes.

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