What's the difference between graceless and graveless?
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.