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Does anyone remember how "Ungracious" Ted Kennedy was when Jimmy Carter got the nomination?
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"Ungracious and ungenerous," rail two correspondents.
Hugh Muir's Diary 2011
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"Ungracious and ungenerous," rail two correspondents.
Hugh Muir's Diary 2011
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All the Beltway 500 code words—Civil, Dignified, Ungracious—for trashing Democrats and preventing them from saying what needs to be said have to do with Republicans reinforcing this fundamental aristocratic value of deference.
Hullabaloo 2006
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Ungracious choices generate instructive consequence reminding one that a more gracious choice was missed in the taking.
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"Ungracious Dudley! success crown all thy plans, whereon the true church shall indeed set her seal, and confounded be the devices of her enemies."
The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance John Turvill Adams
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Ungracious as was his mood, Percy would not have been a beauty-adoring mortal if he had not paid involuntary tribute to the charms of the woman who was his bitterest foe.
Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter Lawrence L. Lynch
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Ungracious girl, that dost deny the father to obey.
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 William Carew Hazlitt 1873
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Then the friends took leave of each other, and Ursula also embraced Eva, who approached her with expressions of warm gratitude, kissed her, and said, as she went away, "When next we meet, Miss Ungracious, I hope we shall no longer turn our backs on each other."
In the Fire of the Forge — Volume 07 Georg Ebers 1867
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Then the friends took leave of each other, and Ursula also embraced Eva, who approached her with expressions of warm gratitude, kissed her, and said, as she went away, "When next we meet, Miss Ungracious, I hope we shall no longer turn our backs on each other."
Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867
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