ungracious

Example Sentences

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Q. Gracious Host, Ungracious Guest: My husband and I are huge college football fans in the Midwest, and we like to attend three or four home football games of our favorite team every season.

From Slate • Sep. 28, 2015

Ungracious as the speech may seem, it cannot be wondered at.

From St. Winifred's, or The World of School by Earnshaw, H. C. (Harold C.)

Ungracious wretch,     Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves,     Where manners ne'er were preach'd!

From Twelfth Night; or What You Will by Shakespeare, William

As I sit writing here, sick and grown old, Not my least burden is that dulness of the years, querilities, Ungracious glooms, aches, lethargy, constipation, whimpering ennui, May filter in my dally songs.

From Leaves of Grass by Whitman, Walt

Then the men all together 270 In concert clamored and cried aloud, Ungracious to God, and gritted their teeth, Grinding them in their grief.

From Old English Poems Translated into the Original Meter Together with Short Selections from Old English Prose by Various