ungracious

Example Sentences

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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

“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

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

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

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