Ungracious
[ʌn'greɪʃəs] or [ʌn'ɡreʃəs]
Definition
(adj.) lacking charm and good taste; 'an ungracious industrial city'; 'this curt summary is not meant to be ungracious'; 'ungracious behavior' .
Checker: Nathan--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Not gracious; showing no grace or kindness; being without good will; unfeeling.
(a.) Having no grace; graceless; wicked.
(a.) Not well received; offensive; unpleasing; unacceptable; not favored.
Checker: Max
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Uncivil, unkind, impolite, rude, rough, unfriendly, disobliging.[2]. Unpleasing, disagreeable, ungrateful, offensive.
Checker: Phelps
Definition
adj. without graciousness of manner rude: (obs.) wicked hateful.—adjs. Ungraced′ not graced or honoured; Ungrace′ful not graceful.—adv. Ungrace′fully.—n. Ungrace′fulness.—adv. Ungrā′ciously.—n. Ungrā′ciousness.
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Examples
- He shrugged his shoulders in ungracious acquiescence, while our visitor in hurried words and with much excitable gesticulation poured forth his story. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Ungracious girl! Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- She had been often remiss, her conscience told her so; remiss, perhaps, more in thought than fact; scornful, ungracious. Jane Austen. Emma.
- He does very well, for a boy, was Meg's somewhat ungracious answer, for the subject did not interest her. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Thank'ee,' replied Bounderby, in a short, ungracious manner. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- He threw up his ungrateful and ungracious hand as if it set up a barrier between them, and flung himself upon his heel and left her. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- There was little enough in him to brighten her face, for he was a sullen young fellow, and ungracious in his manner even to her. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- But Rome was an ungracious conqueror. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He had all the clearness and quickness of mind which she wanted, and he could sometimes act an ungracious, or say a severe thing. Jane Austen. Emma.
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