How To Use Ungracious In A Sentence
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Would he ascend to heaven or drop ungraciously to hell?
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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)
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Why indeed would Mr Francis leap so ungraciously at distortions and seek (albeit unsuccessfully) to damage my career and undermine my livelihood?
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Never mind the spectacular ungraciousness of not giving his 2000 runningmate the courtesy of a phone call.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Perhaps you're feeling upset because of personal problems which have led you to behave in an ungracious manner?
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He'd been set to throw me out but now he would look too ungracious.
SNOWJOB
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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.
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It rather ungraciously destroyed a program developed by the agency for a light, agile tank with a high-velocity 75 mm gun.
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Rather ungraciously he complained about this new son of his.
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I ungraciously chucked in all the books I no longer needed and slammed my locker shut.
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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
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When things are going well for them politically, they are unbearably arrogant, shoving it in everyone's faces, ungraciously lording it over all concerned.
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Holden has little need for Spencer's lecture, but he doesn't want to hurt his teacher's feelings by being short or ungracious.
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Your pardon, sir," added Wellmere, very ungraciously proceeding to lay aside his coat, and exhibit what he called a wounded arm.
The Spy
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You could have dug a bit deeper,' suggested Pascoe ungraciously.
CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
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It was ungracious of me not to acknowledge your help.
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It's more like I'm disappointed in myself, how I could have thought anything so ungracious about her.
SORT OF RICH
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It would be ungracious of me to hope that bad things happen to you in return, so I'll merely take solace in my knowledge that you have to go through life having a personality like that.
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At dinner, the lady maintained the same ungracious indifference, never speaking but in whispers to her aunt; and as to the repast, it was made up of a parcel of kickshaws, contrived by a French cook, without one substantial article adapted to the satisfaction of an English appetite.
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
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A big ego so utterly ungracious and another big ego, Niki's, that had to swallow that kind of shit.
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When the knigh heard them speak thus, it was greatly contrarious to his mind, for he thought never to make any such bargain, and answered them with a felonous regard: Fly away, ye ungracious people, false and evil traitors that ye be: would you that I should forsake my natural lord for such a company of knaves as ye be, to my dishonour for ever?
Wat Tyler’s Rebellion. How the Nobles of England Were in Great Peril to Have Been Destroyed, and How These Rebels Were Punished and Sent Home to Their Own Houses
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He put away -- "burked" -- the Directors letter, and went in to talk to Riley, who was as ungracious as usual, and fretting himself over the way the bank would run during his illness.
Plain Tales from the Hills
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They were unlucky, but that doesn't excuse the ungracious manner of their exit.
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The race was pretty dull, though enjoyable to see such ungraciousness in defeat for a change.
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It is ungracious of me not to acknowledge your help.
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While it's probably true that the word "galoot" derived from a slur for African galley slaves, I would see it as ungracious and pedantic to bring this up with the implication that the person so informed must avoid the term for fear of transgressing the bounds of tolerance and responsibility.
Friday Night Open Thread: Comics
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That these massive gentlemen do not understand that in 1804 the term conveyed notions of sexual perversion is hardly their fault, but the filmmakers rather ungraciously set them up to make the error and entirely omit the point for viewers.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
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Muttering something about "pickpockets" and "hold-ups," he ferreted around in his pocket and brought out a single coin, which he dropped ungraciously into the insistent cap.
The Primrose Ring
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You've got to downplay the compliment but you can't reject it because that seems ungracious.
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And, none of us expect him to be loving -- she has a massive blind spot for the wee scunner -- but man, is he ungracious.
The WritingYA Weblog: TBR3: A Tale of Two Cities - Wheels Within Wheels
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ungracious behavior
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When things are going well for them politically, they are unbearably arrogant, shoving it in everyone's faces, ungraciously lording it over all concerned.
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I was embarrassed by my ungraciousness, faced as I was with a bowl of such delicious noodles, giving off steam and sending off strong aromas.
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But my friends wanted sympathy, and it seemed ungracious of me not to empathize.
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`I wouldn't want you to break a promise," grunted Dog ungraciously.
THE ONLY GAME
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But the ungenerousness of my conduct towards my master -- one who never treated me with aught but kindness and confidence -- the ungracious return I have made for all his bounties is a source of regret which the judgment of the law cannot repair.
Trials and Confessions of Madison Henderson, alias Blanchard, Alfred Amos Warrick, James W. Seward, and Charles Brown, Murderers of Jesse Baker and Jacob Weaver, as Given by Themselves; and a Likeness of Each, Taken in Jail Shortly after Their Arrest.
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Kathleen Dunbar showed up after all, but her behavior was reported as "ungracious" by those that were there.
Archive 2005-12-01
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But really, they've been so ungracious about the whole thing!
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It would be stupid, which is far worse than ungracious, not to acknowledge that the prime minister has just completed the two most impressive weeks of his political career.
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But there it is, so please don't force me to be ungracious to you by trying to insist that you're different and that an exception should be made for you.
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He turned on chief executives with alarming regularity and would often speak for just a few minutes before heading for the door, leaving embarrassed party officials to try to explain away his ungracious behaviour.
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With senior board members receiving massive pay hikes for 2003, it was rather ungracious of management to expect the workers to go without a pay rise.
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Had you not been so ungracious when you were rightly called on the carpet for your plagiarism, perhaps you would have gotten a more gracious acceptance of your current admission that you wrong.
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Oh, re: Obama's response -- there is nothing ungracious or unclassy about simply saying a VP choice is premature ... and I'm running for President.
Bill Clinton: Hillary-Obama Ticket Would Be "Almost Unstoppable Force"
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It may seem ungracious to describe Galway's loss to Mayo in the Connacht under-21 football semi-final in Castlebar last Wednesday as a flop.
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But the ungenerousness of my conduct towards my master -- one who never treated me with aught but kindness and confidence -- the ungracious return I have made for all his bounties is a source of regret which the judgment of the law cannot repair.
Trials and Confessions of Madison Henderson, alias Blanchard, Alfred Amos Warrick, James W. Seward, and Charles Brown, Murderers of Jesse Baker and Jacob Weaver, as Given by Themselves; and a Likeness of Each, Taken in Jail Shortly after Their Arrest.
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she asked ungraciously, and then looked away from him at Hunter without waiting for a reply.
THE ANCIENT AND SOLITARY REIGN
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I was a most ungracious hostess but then I was a most unwilling one.
THE ROAD TO PARADISE ISLAND
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Mr Powell was described by Lord Wilson as "ungracious" for writing about him.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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Perhaps someone could offer a reasonable explanation - not just a lame excuse - for this apparent cold, ungracious, disrespectful conduct and lapse in basic good manners?
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In this fairly ungracious position (the view up my shorts for the bloke on the exercise bike opposite can't have been too nice) I started to do sit-ups.
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In fact, that ungraciousness was what led to the birth of this young magician.
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an ungracious industrial city
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Given these circumstances, Lorenzo's rhyming reproach to his Yankee public, if ungracious, is surely understandable.
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Remember that his ungracious words about Irish rugby did not begin last week, they actually started in the summer when he outlined a series of reasons why South Africa could not lose to the likes of Ireland.
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Hughes labelled Wenger "ungracious" and other Premier League managers weighed in with criticism, but a similar scenario seems unlikely today.
WalesOnline - Home
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Like watching paint dry" – John Kear in uncharacteristically ungracious mood after his Wakefield team had been drubbed at Wigan on Easter Monday.
My Super League awards show
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We are so relaxed, cheerful and sated after our meals that such a complaint would be ungracious.
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In the immediate aftermath of a 1-0 home defeat, he then ungraciously criticised Liverpool's tactics in ‘just kicking the ball forward and hoping to get a break’.
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The spirit of reform had driven those, who so violently felt its influence, into many usages that, to say the least, were quite as ungracious to the imagination, as the customs they termed idolatrous were obnoxious to the attacks of their own unaccommodating theories.
The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish
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The bookish historian now accepts it, reluctantly and ungraciously enough.
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Ungraciously and ungently, with blow and curse, they haled me forth, and I faced Captain Jamie and
Chapter 4
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Given the ungraciousness of this approach, the response from Sargent was on the lower end of the nuclear scale.
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In Nanxuzhou Pearl came close to taking the conventional missionary view that pictured Chinese people not as individuals but as a menacing, faceless horde, morally obnoxious and numerically overwhelming: “hard-featured, envious, curious, unsympathetic and ungracious,” as the head of U.S. Presbyterian Missions put it on a tour of the Yangtse basin, “they flock to a foreigner and close him in, like ants to a piece of bread.”
PEARL BUCK IN CHINA
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A big ego so utterly ungracious and another big ego, Niki's, that had to swallow that kind of shit.
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So he obeys, and is criticised for his ungraciousness in the next day's newspapers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Gardiner later responded by branding Pallett "ungracious" and a "really silly little girl".
All - Digital Spy - Entertainment and Media News
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A big ego so utterly ungracious and another big ego, Niki's, that had to swallow that kind of shit.
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And believe me, Madam (though I do not presume to add those expressions which might rather heighten the offence I fear this letter will give you), that the assurance of your happiness in the choice you have made, and which now no obstacle can oppose, will considerably -- lighten the pain with which I shall long recall my ungracious reply to your communication.
Lucretia — Volume 03
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this curt summary is not meant to be ungracious
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He rode out the Quemado Road one matchless December day when the very air would have seemed sufficient to produce flowers without calling the ungracious desert into service.
Children of the Desert