ungracious

Example Sentences

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While Osaka lost to Canadian teenager Victoria Mboko in the final, then drew criticism for seemingly being ungracious in defeat, she has carried the momentum into the US Open.

From BBC • Sep. 3, 2025

“It is the Brazilian culture when a goal is scored. That’s how we do things,” Tite said of his team’s on-field danceathons, which critics have charged were ungracious.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2022

“Maybe this was ungracious of me, but I declined,” Rosen told Senate Judiciary Committee investigators in an interview transcript released Thursday.

From Washington Post • Oct. 8, 2021

And I can’t chide politicians for ungracious manners and unsubtle minds if those inadequacies are also my own.

From New York Times • Jun. 17, 2021

I ignored this last ungracious remark and thought for a minute.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly