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Ungracious adj.

Not gracious; showing no grace or kindness; being without good will; unfeeling.

Having no grace; graceless; wicked. (Obs.)

Not well received; offensive; unpleasing; unacceptable; not favored. "Anything of grace toward the Irish rebels was as ungracious at Oxford as at London."

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Etymology of 'Ungracious'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Ungracious" Quotes from Famous Books

... dress!" was Imogen's instant thought,—an ungracious one, and quite unwarranted by the circumstances. Clover and Elsie kept themselves neat and pretty from habit and instinct, but the muslin gowns were neither new nor fashionable, they had only the merit of being fresh and ...

— In the High Valley - Being the fifth and last volume of the Katy Did series • Susan Coolidge

... had a chance in his youth, but his father was the last man in the world to encourage out-of-the-way ambitions in his sons. Father and mother were alike—hard, grasping, and ungracious. The father, on the whole, was a pleasanter person than the mother, with her long, pale, horse-face and ready sneer; he was only uncompromisingly hard and ungenial to all ...

— An Isle in the Water • Katharine Tynan

... acceptable: Victor signified as much with an ungracious mumble. Lanyard fetched glasses, a decanter, a siphon-bottle, and supplied his guest with a ...

— Red Masquerade • Louis Joseph Vance

... plants throve in spite of their ungracious nursing, and when she was not irritated by them Nan was very proud of the ...

— The Governess • Julie M. Lippmann

... the Box, Mr. Winkle "bowed to the Judge," with considerable deference, a politeness quite thrown away. "Don't look at me sir," said the Judge sharply, "look at the Jury." This was ungracious, but judges generally don't relish any advances from ...

— Bardell v. Pickwick • Percy Fitzgerald

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