Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character of being ungracious.
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- noun The state or condition of being
ungracious .
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- noun an offensive lack of good manners
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Examples
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After a while he died and she came back: but she had learnt wantonness and ungraciousness from the people of Cairo; 598 so she visited thee four times and at last brought her younger sister.
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Yet reluctantly, it seemed; with a kind of ungraciousness hard to explain.
The Long Night Stanley John Weyman 1891
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From her own files, for instance, Almond recounts the story of a mother driven to distraction by the incivility and ungraciousness of her beautiful teenage daughter, who treated her mother's serious illness with scorn.
"The Monster Within: The Hidden Side of Motherhood," by Barbara Almond Carolyn See 2010
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From her own files, for instance, Almond recounts the story of a mother driven to distraction by the incivility and ungraciousness of her beautiful teenage daughter, who treated her mother's serious illness with scorn.
"The Monster Within: The Hidden Side of Motherhood," by Barbara Almond Carolyn See 2010
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How someone thinks that her pathetics acts of ungraciousness will somehow benefit women in the future is beyond me.
Sources: Clinton, Obama supporters discussing exit strategies 2008
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Secondly, this supposed ungraciousness on the part of Cheney is an outright untruth.
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Well, you're certainly doing your part to provoke Obama supporters into ungraciousness.
In Speech Endorsing Obama, Edwards Offers Effusive Praise Of Hillary 2009
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The blank ungraciousness of this astounded me, until I simply IMed a dozen artists in a gallery where I was showing and suggested that we all put our show location in Picks.
On Artists and their Patrons aka Larry Pixel 2009
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Lady Margaret parted from her with her accustomed ungraciousness, and Miss Bennet, because in her presence, in a manner scarcely less displeasing.
Cecilia 2008
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He passed the day in dispensing justice among the folk, bidding to graciousness and forbidding ungraciousness and appointing to place and displacing, till day-end, when the Divan broke up, after the goodliest fashion, and all the troops withdrew and each went his own way.
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