Mrs. Venables spoke to her quite sharply for once on the subject of limitations of interest and ungracefulness of speech.
"The Furnace"
Rose Macaulay
Every ungracefulness must have shown its full deformity, with no possibility of disguise; every angle must have been aggravated, and every untoward movement made doubly fatal.
"A Red Wallflower"
Susan Warner
They were too habituated to the ungracefulness of an unlettered pride, to bow themselves to address conciliating language either to the people or their foes.
"Rienzi"
Edward Bulwer Lytton