social grace
Noun
Meaning
A skill for dealing with people and society.
His lack of mastery of the social graces made it obvious he had not been raised in upper-class society.
The ability to fit into polite society and behave properly and with etiquette.
His lack of social grace made him anathema at dinner parties.
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Examples
To a high degree we are, through art and science, cultured. We are civilized - perhaps too much for our own good - in all sorts of social grace and decorum. But to consider ourselves as having reached morality.
The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all to know the culture of our country. They find a kind of French social grace in the language and culture.
I swear I've never met a man who has your knack for lack of social grace. If you weren't naturally charming, someone would have stabbed you by now.
Allowing an unimportant mistake to pass without comment is a wonderful social grace.
Time is found in the calibration of the individual to the timing of a collective endeavour, the social grace that less clock-bound societies must practise.
Casual, self-absorbed decadence, the evaporation of social grace, money calling all the shots and memories of the past holding people hostage from the future that lies before them.