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 was his mood, Percy would not have been a beauty-adoring mortal if he had not paid involuntary tribute to the charms of the woman who was his bitterest foe.

From Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter by Lynch, Lawrence L.

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

Ungracious girl, that dost deny the father to obey.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 by Hazlitt, William Carew

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