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

But instead of asking, Ed makes a unilateral decision, conveyed by his wife, and we are forced to comply or seem ungracious and risk offending them.

From Washington Post • Jan. 29, 2023

Indeed, while the first Adams may have been ungracious by skipping Jefferson's inauguration, he did something of tremendous historical consequence by handing over power at all.

From Salon • Jan. 11, 2021

As a convention it feels like an ungracious hedge, a churlish reluctance to commend the powerful or famous no matter how well deserved.

From New York Times • Nov. 12, 2020

The souvenir pamphlet noted that even a full load of passengers had “no more effect on the movements or the speed than if they were so many flies”—an oddly ungracious allusion.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson