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 this reception, if you could judge of the Skinner's feelings from his manner, it nevertheless delighted him.

From The Spy by Cooper, James Fenimore

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

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 critics might have thought that the manner flushed the man, something in the same fictitious way that the vest flushed the cheek.

From The Confidence-Man by Melville, Herman