ungracious
adjective
un·gra·cious
ˌən-ˈgrā-shəs 
1
archaic
: wicked
2
: not courteous : rude
ungracious treatment
3
: not pleasing : disagreeable
an ungracious task
ungraciously
adverb
ungraciousness
noun
Synonyms
Examples of ungracious in a Sentence
There's no need to be ungracious about it.
we were taken aback by our aunt's ungracious reply to the invitation we had sent her
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To have remained stone silent was ungracious.
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Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 31 May 2022
But instead of asking, Ed makes a unilateral decision, conveyed by his wife, and we are forced to comply or seem ungracious and risk offending them.
—Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2023
Such compliments are common, perhaps because the giver does not realize how ungracious comparisons are.
—Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2022
Schoenberg’s Suite, Op. 25, an example of his early supposedly ungracious 12-tone style, is just the thing to keep traditional audiences away.
—Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2022
Asking for gas money for a party that your daughter was attending seems to Miss Manners a bit miserly and ungracious.
—Washington Post, 28 June 2021
To bring up other human needs, of emotional or intellectual fulfilment beyond a roof to sleep under, is to be ungracious in the eyes of the media and the privileged public.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 28 Aug. 2021
None of this erases the everyday problem of unheld doors, forgotten thank yous, and ungracious birthday party guests.
—BostonGlobe.com, 23 Oct. 2019
But there remains a somewhat ungracious tenor to this administration that could be excised, sloughed like something outgrown, with no loss of counter-fire.
—Conrad Black, National Review, 11 Sep. 2019
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Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 31 May 2022
But instead of asking, Ed makes a unilateral decision, conveyed by his wife, and we are forced to comply or seem ungracious and risk offending them.
—Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2023
Such compliments are common, perhaps because the giver does not realize how ungracious comparisons are.
—Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2022
Schoenberg’s Suite, Op. 25, an example of his early supposedly ungracious 12-tone style, is just the thing to keep traditional audiences away.
—Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2022
Asking for gas money for a party that your daughter was attending seems to Miss Manners a bit miserly and ungracious.
—Washington Post, 28 June 2021
To bring up other human needs, of emotional or intellectual fulfilment beyond a roof to sleep under, is to be ungracious in the eyes of the media and the privileged public.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 28 Aug. 2021
None of this erases the everyday problem of unheld doors, forgotten thank yous, and ungracious birthday party guests.
—BostonGlobe.com, 23 Oct. 2019
But there remains a somewhat ungracious tenor to this administration that could be excised, sloughed like something outgrown, with no loss of counter-fire.
—Conrad Black, National Review, 11 Sep. 2019
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“Ungracious.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ungracious. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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ungracious
adjective
un·gra·cious
ˌən-ˈgrā-shəs
1
: not courteous : rude
ungracious treatment
2
: not pleasing : disagreeable
an ungracious task
ungraciously
adverb
ungraciousness
noun
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