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UK
/ʌnɡɹˈeɪʃəs/
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ADJECTIVE
- lacking social graces
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lacking charm and good taste
this curt summary is not meant to be ungracious
ungracious behavior
an ungracious industrial city
How To Use ungracious In A Sentence
- Would he ascend to heaven or drop ungraciously to hell?
- He was to the last plain and blunt; at this time I can easily believe him to have been so to a degree which Scott might look upon as "ungracious" -- I take the epithet from one of his letters to James Ballantyne. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10)
- Why indeed would Mr Francis leap so ungraciously at distortions and seek (albeit unsuccessfully) to damage my career and undermine my livelihood?
- He'd been set to throw me out but now he would look too ungracious. SNOWJOB
- Holden has little need for Spencer's lecture, but he doesn't want to hurt his teacher's feelings by being short or ungracious.
- When things are going well for them politically, they are unbearably arrogant, shoving it in everyone's faces, ungraciously lording it over all concerned.
- Tim "Eyes Coming Outta My Skull" Russert is reporting that the Obama camp views Sen Clinton offering herself up as VEEP as "ungracious" and "not happy campers. Pro-Hillary Super-Del Defects To Obama, Putting Him A Dozen Away From Nomination
- I ungraciously chucked in all the books I no longer needed and slammed my locker shut.
- Rather ungraciously he complained about this new son of his.
- It rather ungraciously destroyed a program developed by the agency for a light, agile tank with a high-velocity 75 mm gun.