Watch a dancer cross a stage: every step runs into the next and nothing looks like work. That ease is grace. Graceless can be thought of as the same scene with the ease removed — the steps still get the person across, but now you see every one of them and how heavy each one is. English then lends that picture out, to the way a person treats others and to the shape of a building.
From the word’s history
Wiktionary gives Middle English graceles, equivalent to grace plus -less. The word has always been simply grace with the grace taken out; what changes between the senses is which kind of grace is missing.
Wiktionary 記的是中古英文 graceles，等於 grace 加上 -less。這個字從頭到尾就是「grace 被拿掉」。各個意思之間變的不是結構，而是被拿掉的是哪一種 grace。
Wiktionary entry for graceless (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:827109627:6283)
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