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UK
/ʌnɡɹˈeɪʃəs/
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ADJECTIVE
- lacking social graces
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lacking charm and good taste
this curt summary is not meant to be ungracious
ungracious behavior
an ungracious industrial city
How To Use ungracious In A Sentence
- Would he ascend to heaven or drop ungraciously to hell?
- He'd been set to throw me out but now he would look too ungracious. SNOWJOB
- Why indeed would Mr Francis leap so ungraciously at distortions and seek (albeit unsuccessfully) to damage my career and undermine my livelihood?
- He was to the last plain and blunt; at this time I can easily believe him to have been so to a degree which Scott might look upon as "ungracious" -- I take the epithet from one of his letters to James Ballantyne. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10)
- Given the ungraciousness of this approach, the response from Sargent was on the lower end of the nuclear scale.
- an ungracious industrial city
- In fact, that ungraciousness was what led to the birth of this young magician.
- In this fairly ungracious position (the view up my shorts for the bloke on the exercise bike opposite can't have been too nice) I started to do sit-ups.
- Perhaps someone could offer a reasonable explanation - not just a lame excuse - for this apparent cold, ungracious, disrespectful conduct and lapse in basic good manners?
- Mr Powell was described by Lord Wilson as "ungracious" for writing about him. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph