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
While Osaka lost to Canadian teenager Victoria Mboko in the final, then drew criticism for seemingly being ungracious in defeat, she has carried the momentum into the US Open.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2025
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
“Maybe this was ungracious of me, but I declined,” Rosen told Senate Judiciary Committee investigators in an interview transcript released Thursday.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 8, 2021
I ignored this last ungracious remark and thought for a minute.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
