[ていよくことわる, teiyokukotowaru] (exp, v5r) to turn someone down (on some pretext) without offending them; to refuse gracefully; to decline politely [Add to Longdo]
Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Graceful \Grace"ful\, a.
Displaying grace or beauty in form or action; elegant; easy;
agreeable in appearance; as, a graceful walk, deportment,
speaker, air, act, speech.
[1913 Webster]
High o'er the rest in arms the graceful Turnus rode.
--Dryden.
-- {Grace"ful*ly}, adv. {Grace"ful*ness}, n.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
gracefully
adv 1: in a graceful manner; "she swooped gracefully" [ant:
{gracelessly}]
2: in a gracious or graceful manner; "he did not have a chance
to grow up graciously" [syn: {graciously}, {gracefully}]
[ant: {gracelessly}, {ungracefully}, {ungraciously},
{woodenly}]
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