Antonyms for gracefullygrace·ful·ly

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1. gracefullyadverb

   in a graceful manner

   "she swooped gracefully"

   Antonyms:
   ungraciously, ungracefully, gracelessly, woodenly

   Synonyms:
   graciously

2. graciously, gracefullyadverb

   in a gracious or graceful manner

   "he did not have a chance to grow up graciously"

   Antonyms:
   gracelessly, ungracefully, ungraciously, woodenly

   Synonyms:
   graciously

How to use gracefully in a sentence?

1. James Wan:

   Luckily everyone felt the same way, the only thing to do here is to retire him gracefully and send him off in the most honorable way we could think of.

2. Gene Brown:

   Accept good advice gracefully--as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place.

3. Lisa Nagengast:

   I was kinda gracefully [ trying to ] back out of everything that had happened at that point, zach Hillmer was like,' No no no, I will take Zach Hillmer to the hospital. You give me Zach Hillmer name and Zach Hillmer address and make sure that Zach Hillmer gets in the car with me, and I will get Zach Hillmer where Zach Hillmer needs to go.'.

4. Sydney J. Harris:

   The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.

5. Mark Zandi:

   My working assumption is that the Chinese are going to be able to gracefully manage their slowdown. But if they stumble too much, that'll make it more difficult for the global economy to kick into a higher gear for sure, including the U.S. economy.

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