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 still, Ellen! what if I have been looking all the morning for some excuse to stay at home, without owning to my mother the truth—that I do not feel to-day quite equal to riding?

From Home Influence A Tale for Mothers and Daughters by Aguilar, Grace

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

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 boy! will you not hear her out?

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4 Poems and Plays by Lamb, Mary