ungracious

Example Sentences

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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

“I made a rude comment, and it was wrong. It was an unnecessary comment. It was ungracious to the server.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2022

Yet both families have young children who seemed to get along, and it would be ungracious to refuse a long weekend in the countryside.

From New York Times • Sep. 8, 2022

If Close gradually became more interesting as a public commentator on his art than as a producer of reliably compelling new work, it feels ungracious to fault him for it.

From Washington Post • Aug. 20, 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