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Definition of ungracious in English: ungraciousadjectiveʌnˈɡreɪʃəsˌənˈɡreɪʃəs 1Not polite or friendly. 不礼貌的；不和蔼的 after Anna's kindness I wouldn't want to seem ungracious 安娜那么和蔼可亲，我不想让自己显得不懂礼貌。 Example sentencesExamples - They were unlucky, but that doesn't excuse the ungracious manner of their exit.
- He turned on chief executives with alarming regularity and would often speak for just a few minutes before heading for the door, leaving embarrassed party officials to try to explain away his ungracious behaviour.
- Perhaps you're feeling upset because of personal problems which have led you to behave in an ungracious manner?
- Except that, at the risk of sounding ungracious, I find it hard to believe my entire neighbourhood can be attacking this recycling business with the same degree of religious fervour.
- Holden has little need for Spencer's lecture, but he doesn't want to hurt his teacher's feelings by being short or ungracious.
- 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?
- Remember that his ungracious words about Irish rugby did not begin last week, they actually started in the summer when he outlined a series of reasons why South Africa could not lose to the likes of Ireland.
- Given these circumstances, Lorenzo's rhyming reproach to his Yankee public, if ungracious, is surely understandable.
- It may seem ungracious to describe Galway's loss to Mayo in the Connacht under-21 football semi-final in Castlebar last Wednesday as a flop.
- It would be stupid, which is far worse than ungracious, not to acknowledge that the prime minister has just completed the two most impressive weeks of his political career.
- But my friends wanted sympathy, and it seemed ungracious of me not to empathize.
- 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.
- But there it is, so please don't force me to be ungracious to you by trying to insist that you're different and that an exception should be made for you.
- With senior board members receiving massive pay hikes for 2003, it was rather ungracious of management to expect the workers to go without a pay rise.
- You've got to downplay the compliment but you can't reject it because that seems ungracious.
- Part of that triumphalism is the ungracious winner's desire to put his shoe on remaining critics, to silence small voices so they hear nothing but praise in their victory march.
- Had you not been so ungracious when you were rightly called on the carpet for your plagiarism, perhaps you would have gotten a more gracious acceptance of your current admission that you wrong.
- It would be ungracious of me to hope that bad things happen to you in return, so I'll merely take solace in my knowledge that you have to go through life having a personality like that.
- But really, they've been so ungracious about the whole thing!
- We are so relaxed, cheerful and sated after our meals that such a complaint would be ungracious.
Synonyms rude, impolite, uncivil, discourteous, ill-mannered, bad-mannered, unmannerly, uncouth, disrespectful, ungallant, insolent, impertinent, impudent, churlish, boorish, gauche, cavalier, offhand, unladylike, ungentlemanly, blunt, gruff, curt, terse, sharp, short, surly, unfriendly, hostile, unkind, inconsiderate, insensitive 2Not graceful or elegant. 不雅致的；不优美的 ungracious living was evinced by doorbells, seven in an eight-roomed house
Derivativesadverbʌnˈɡreɪʃəsliˌənˈɡreɪʃəsli In the immediate aftermath of a 1-0 home defeat, he then ungraciously criticised Liverpool's tactics in ‘just kicking the ball forward and hoping to get a break’. Example sentencesExamples - Rather ungraciously he complained about this new son of his.
- When things are going well for them politically, they are unbearably arrogant, shoving it in everyone's faces, ungraciously lording it over all concerned.
- However, my speech would ungraciously make little reference to where the true credit lay, and, when I unveiled the plaque, it bore my name and not my predecessors.
- Why indeed would Mr Francis leap so ungraciously at distortions and seek (albeit unsuccessfully) to damage my career and undermine my livelihood?
nounʌnˈɡreɪʃəsnəsˌənˈɡreɪʃəsnəs Given the ungraciousness of this approach, the response from Sargent was on the lower end of the nuclear scale. Example sentencesExamples - Never mind the spectacular ungraciousness of not giving his 2000 runningmate the courtesy of a phone call.
- In fact, that ungraciousness was what led to the birth of this young magician.
- I was embarrassed by my ungraciousness, faced as I was with a bowl of such delicious noodles, giving off steam and sending off strong aromas.
- The race was pretty dull, though enjoyable to see such ungraciousness in defeat for a change.
Definition of ungracious in US English: ungraciousadjectiveˌənˈɡreɪʃəsˌənˈɡrāSHəs 1Not polite or friendly. 不礼貌的；不和蔼的 after Anna's kindness I wouldn't want to seem ungracious 安娜那么和蔼可亲，我不想让自己显得不懂礼貌。 Example sentencesExamples - But there it is, so please don't force me to be ungracious to you by trying to insist that you're different and that an exception should be made for you.
- But my friends wanted sympathy, and it seemed ungracious of me not to empathize.
- But really, they've been so ungracious about the whole thing!
- Part of that triumphalism is the ungracious winner's desire to put his shoe on remaining critics, to silence small voices so they hear nothing but praise in their victory march.
- Given these circumstances, Lorenzo's rhyming reproach to his Yankee public, if ungracious, is surely understandable.
- Remember that his ungracious words about Irish rugby did not begin last week, they actually started in the summer when he outlined a series of reasons why South Africa could not lose to the likes of Ireland.
- It would be ungracious of me to hope that bad things happen to you in return, so I'll merely take solace in my knowledge that you have to go through life having a personality like that.
- Holden has little need for Spencer's lecture, but he doesn't want to hurt his teacher's feelings by being short or ungracious.
- Had you not been so ungracious when you were rightly called on the carpet for your plagiarism, perhaps you would have gotten a more gracious acceptance of your current admission that you wrong.
- He turned on chief executives with alarming regularity and would often speak for just a few minutes before heading for the door, leaving embarrassed party officials to try to explain away his ungracious behaviour.
- They were unlucky, but that doesn't excuse the ungracious manner of their exit.
- It would be stupid, which is far worse than ungracious, not to acknowledge that the prime minister has just completed the two most impressive weeks of his political career.
- Except that, at the risk of sounding ungracious, I find it hard to believe my entire neighbourhood can be attacking this recycling business with the same degree of religious fervour.
- With senior board members receiving massive pay hikes for 2003, it was rather ungracious of management to expect the workers to go without a pay rise.
- You've got to downplay the compliment but you can't reject it because that seems ungracious.
- 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.
- We are so relaxed, cheerful and sated after our meals that such a complaint would be ungracious.
- Perhaps you're feeling upset because of personal problems which have led you to behave in an ungracious manner?
- 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?
- It may seem ungracious to describe Galway's loss to Mayo in the Connacht under-21 football semi-final in Castlebar last Wednesday as a flop.
Synonyms rude, impolite, uncivil, discourteous, ill-mannered, bad-mannered, unmannerly, uncouth, disrespectful, ungallant, insolent, impertinent, impudent, churlish, boorish, gauche, cavalier, offhand, unladylike, ungentlemanly, blunt, gruff, curt, terse, sharp, short, surly, unfriendly, hostile, unkind, inconsiderate, insensitive 2Not graceful or elegant. 不雅致的；不优美的
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