ungracious

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?
• Never mind the spectacular ungraciousness of not giving his 2000 runningmate the courtesy of a phone call.
• However, my speech would ungraciously make little reference to where the true credit lay, and, when I unveiled the plaque, it bore my name and not my predecessors.
• The first time I used it, it ungraciously bent at the handle and the entire pan of pasta that I'd just poured in got dumped into the sink.
• Except that, at the risk of sounding ungracious, I find it hard to believe my entire neighbourhood can be attacking this recycling business with the same degree of religious fervour.
• Perhaps you're feeling upset because of personal problems which have led you to behave in an ungracious manner?
• He'd been set to throw me out but now he would look too ungracious. SNOWJOB
• Part of that triumphalism is the ungracious winner's desire to put his shoe on remaining critics, to silence small voices so they hear nothing but praise in their victory march.