An ungracious industrial city. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : ungracious behavior. ,an ungracious task. From Dictionary.com.
Kathleen Dunbar showed up after all, but her behavior was reported as "ungracious" by those that were there. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-12-01] Reference
The name ungracious ever stuck. From Wordnik.com. [A Hundred Fables of La Fontaine] Reference
"What do you want?" he asked in ungracious tones. From Wordnik.com. [Hauff's Fairy Tales, Translated and Adapted] Reference
Mr Powell was described by Lord Wilson as "ungracious" for writing about him. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Gardiner later responded by branding Pallett "ungracious" and a "really silly little girl". From Wordnik.com. [All - Digital Spy - Entertainment and Media News] Reference
I should feel it kind of ungracious to have him around at a time like this.”. From Wordnik.com. [Mystery Mile]
"Sorry to seem ungracious, but even that I can't allow.". From Wordnik.com. [The Grell Mystery] Reference
"It makes you look ungracious, and people don't forget.". From Wordnik.com. [Lev Raphael: Is Oprah Sexist? Should Authors Say Less and Write More?] Reference
I don't think my remark called for so ungracious a reply. From Wordnik.com. [Molly Bawn] Reference
Elsie's ungracious silence passed unnoticed by all but Duncan. From Wordnik.com. [Little Folks (July 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference
To many the selection of Robert Yates seemed almost ungracious. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
The words were ungracious, but Sam looked worried and uncertain. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker] Reference
"You will find out when you get to Kharkov," was the ungracious rejoinder. From Wordnik.com. [Rabbi and Priest A Story] Reference
And what could she say in rebuke that would not be churlish and ungracious?. From Wordnik.com. [The Scarlet Feather] Reference
My instincts told me it was ungracious to let the guests leave empty-handed. From Wordnik.com. [Avoiding 99 cent store party favors] Reference
'I don't want to see your box, and I shan't open the door,' said the ungracious girl. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Mary] Reference
For years, a few of their first cousins seemed especially ungracious and self-destructive. From Wordnik.com. [Her Cocoon Of Values] Reference
My answer must be this, and again I must give you reason to think me ungracious, ungrateful. From Wordnik.com. [The Diamond Coterie] Reference
"It's an ungracious way of putting it," smiling slightly; "but -- that's about the way it stands.". From Wordnik.com. [The Diamond Coterie] Reference
"Even when you are ungracious, if ever, you are always the most adorable and beautiful woman in the world.". From Wordnik.com. [Bandit Love] Reference
And though his words were ungracious, she caught the spirit which lay back of them and thanked him sweetly. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference
His son, being an ungracious boy, and 'prentice to one Robert Scotchford, clothier, dwelling in that parish of. From Wordnik.com. [The Superstitions of Witchcraft] Reference
It would have been ungracious on no evidence at all to have stated my real mind, and I compromised by saying nothing. From Wordnik.com. [In Direst Peril] Reference
It is far better to err on the other side, and to give one of those stiff, ungracious bows which some men indulge in. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873] Reference
And, if not, can we expect reasonably an outpouring of His grace while in this ungracious manner we are thwarting Him?. From Wordnik.com. [Old John Brown, the man whose soul is marching on] Reference
"I should not imagine that such a very ungracious compliance called for such excessive thanks," said Grace, sarcastically. From Wordnik.com. [Isabel Leicester A Romance by Maude Alma] Reference
England, but, repulsed shortly after by the ungracious manner of the ungrateful George I., they soon abandoned public life. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference
"This is indeed a surprise," she said, extending her hand, for in her present happiness she could not be ungracious or unkind. From Wordnik.com. [Isabel Leicester A Romance by Maude Alma] Reference
"Certainly, I have no wish to oppose the ends of justice," he said, in a tone which, in spite of himself, was most ungracious. From Wordnik.com. [The Diamond Coterie] Reference
Then fearing that this might sound ungracious, she added hastily, "Though there isn't anyone I'd like to visit better than you.". From Wordnik.com. [Miss Pat at Artemis Lodge] Reference
"I didn't mean to grumble, truly," cried Tabitha, dismayed at having had her ungracious complaint overheard by her young hostess. From Wordnik.com. [Tabitha's Vacation] Reference
This abrupt and impolitic, not to say ungracious and unsoldier-like proceeding, has been justified by the necessity of the moment. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference
Indeed, in some instances, even a frank and positive refusal will give less pain than an ungracious and grudgingly bestowed favour. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of the Humber or the History of the Late Mr. John Ellerthorpe] Reference
Dr. Cricket, who seems to feel personally responsible for these young men, evidently thought my behavior ungracious and inhospitable. From Wordnik.com. [Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes] Reference
Still, she was not one to give way to disappointment, and she had too much good sense to show herself either ungrateful or ungracious. From Wordnik.com. [The Cryptogram A Novel] Reference
Our author speaks with so great appreciation of Christianity that it seems an ungracious thing to find fault with his interpretation of it. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics] Reference
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