adjective
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Kind and warmly courteous
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Tactful
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Compassionate
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Indulgent, charming and graceful
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Elegant and with good taste
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Benignant
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Full of grace
interjection
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Expression of surprise, contempt, outrage, disgust, boredom, frustration.
Examples of gracious in a Sentence
He was gracious and gentle with the old woman.
I am deep in your debt, my most gracious lord and master.
And the Tsarevich was very gracious to all our officers.
That is very gracious of you Samantha, but completely unnecessary.
The old prince was in a good temper and very gracious to Pierre.
The Emperor is gracious, and I shan't forget you if you deserve well.
His aim was to impress upon her familiar facts and aspects the seal of his own gracious nature.
Good gracious, I believe I am.
But they spoke many gracious words to me.
No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends.
I shall await your most gracious permission here in hospital, that I may not have to play the part of a secretary rather than commander in the army.
As he had just spoken of " returning the gracious protecting god to Assur," and spells the name Ni-nu-a, there can be no doubt that Nineveh is meant.
My soul delights in the repose and gracious curves of the Venus; and in Barre's bronzes the secrets of the jungle are revealed to me.
While God fulfils His all-embracing purpose, that fulfilment leaves room for the exercise of individual freedom; the freedom God has bestowed on man He can so restrain and direct as to overrule even its abuse for His own gracious ends.
But the genuine Arab meaning of Rahim is " gracious," and thus, the old Mahommedan Arab papyri render this word by cAiXavOpunros.
Though he called a parliament early in 1484, and made all manner of gracious promises of good governance, he felt that his position was insecure.
Here Demosthenes took sanctuary with "gracious Poseidon," and, when this threatened to fail him, sought death.
They express the gracious courtesy and playful humour which were natural to him, and his varied interests in human life.
A special invitation was sent him by the king to attend the coronation of Anne Boleyn, accompanied with the gracious offer of 20 to buy a new suit for the occasiont More refused to attend, and from that moment was marked out for vengeance.
Gracious me, they did rattle past!
On the following day the king, seated on the topmost step of a lofty tribune surmounted by a baldaquin, erected in the midst of the principal square of Copenhagen, received the public homage of his subjects of all ranks, in the presence of an immense concourse, on which occasion he again promised to rule " as a Christian hereditary king and gracious master," and, " as soon as possible, to prepare and set up " such a constitution as should secure to his subjects a Christian and indulgent sway.
The last tip I have to offer is to be gracious.
To the Prophecy of Restoration we may fitly apply the words, too gracious and too subtly chosen to be translated, of Renan, "ce second Isaie, dont Fame lumineuse semble comme impregnee, six cent ans d'avance, de toutes les rosees, de tous les parfums de l'avenir" (L'Antechrist, p. 464); though, indeed, the common verdict of sympathetic readers sums up the sentence in a single phrase - "the Evangelical Prophet."
It was probably at the time when a desire for revenge on her calumniatress made her think the opportunity good and safe for discharge of such a two-edged dart at the countess and the queen that Mary wrote, but abstained from despatching, the famous and terrible letter in which, with many gracious excuses and professions of regret and attachment, she transmits to Elizabeth a full and vivid report of the hideous gossip retailed by Bess of Hardwick regarding her character and person at a time when the reporter of these abominations was on friendly terms with her husband's royal charge.
Have all made the largest online so incredibly gracious prizes you can.
Kris was gracious and gentle with this woman, who he could very easily treat like he did his Immortals and brothers.
Gracious in victory, he went over to console an understandably devastated Piggy.
Al-Rahman means THE Gracious - the one whose grace totally eclipses the grace of others.
It is my hope that I become more gracious even under the greatest stress for everyone's benefit.
The gracious, original homestead is reminiscent of the traditional country architecture of the region.
I would say that as far as losing I try and be a gracious loser.
Old Worldpite being in a sense the first of the modern female detectives, Yvonne retains a slightly old-world, gracious flavor.
Claire was known as a gracious remitter, because she willingly forgave all wrongs and never held a grudge.
The owner and founder of La Isla Couture, Enrique Sanchez-Rivera, was gracious enough to grant us an exclusive interview.
She is the gracious Queen of the Kingdom of Sweets.
Do not backbite One Another In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
Are you very gracious or are you more ' in your face '?
Or, Lord, Thou art so gracious, I am sure Thou wilt accept anything I may bring.
He was extremely gracious, polite, attentive and didn't rush me through my introduction.
God is always gracious enough to give us time to embrace his truth in our lives.
Trotsky was wearing a commander's uniform and he appeared very handsome, genial and gracious sitting at his desk.
Whatever your choice casual elegance, combined with gracious hospitality, will be your first impression.
The family gathered round while she Played gracious hostess, had a smile For everyone, and brought us tea.
In Anglican theology, unity is achieved by our saying yes to God's gracious invitation to his table.
Does A answer B's veiled insult with an angry retort or a gracious change of subject?
Macbeth lacks political skill, and turns the gracious office of king into the rule of a bloody tribal warlord.
He was not an orator, and though he could express himself forcibly on occasion, his speech was incoherent and devoid of any of the arts of rhetoric. Clarendon notes on his first appearance in parliament that "he seemed to have a person in no degree gracious, no ornament of discourse, none of those talents which use to reconcile the affections of the standers by; yet as he grew into place and authority his parts seemed to be renewed."
But I, O gracious Poseidon, quit thy temple while I yet live; Antipater and his Macedonians have done what they could to pollute it."
People who choose these sports need to be gracious and composed whether they are winning or losing.
Looks like a few of Hollywood's elite could stand to learn a thing or two from this gracious guy.