ungracious

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James Corden has admitted he was "ungracious" to a restaurant server in an incident which saw him temporarily banned from New York eatery Balthazar.

From BBC • Oct. 25, 2022

She worries — without making any accusations — that the newly implemented rules, and their announcement, were ungracious.

From Washington Post • Mar. 3, 2022

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

How much of my ungracious condition of mind may have been my own fault, how much Miss Havisham’s, how much my sister’s, is now of no moment to me or to any one.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens