(1) Martha was slumped gracelessly in an armchair.

(2) He dropped gracelessly into a chair opposite her.

(3) She moves rather gracelessly.

(4) Mubarak, however, gracelessly refused to co-operate with the patrons who now find him such an embarrassment.

(5) And he gracelessly passed the buck when an MP's office was raided by police without a warrant last year.

(6) The task fell to Mr Harris to deliver this bad news. It was gracelessly done.

(7) Given a couple of lessons, I should be stumbling gracelessly around the golf course and playing badly in no time at all.