ungracious
Example Sentences
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But the tournament will also be remembered for a classless and churlish Argentina, which forever stained itself with a thuggish performance in the game and an ungracious one afterward.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
Believing it to be the personal gift of Queen Elizabeth II, Hockney felt it ungracious to decline.
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026
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
Castigating himself after the fact for his “huge sense of entitlement,” Corden wrote, “I can see why and how it must have looked — ungracious, ungrateful and brattish.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2022
I did not mind if they thought me rude and ungracious.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
