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Recent Examples of ungracious But, even though there was nothing the slightest bit ungracious or ungenerous about her performance, it was felt more like the audience being asked to come to her. Chris Willman, Variety, 26 Apr. 2025 Trump, in turn, canceled the additional metals tariff, reverting to his original 25 percent imposition, and then took his predictably ungracious victory lap. Chris Jones, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2025 And your only question is how to deal with an ungracious host? Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 14 Jan. 2025 But instead of asking, Ed makes a unilateral decision, conveyed by his wife, and we are forced to comply or seem ungracious and risk offending them. Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2023 To have remained stone silent was ungracious. Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 31 May 2022 Schoenberg’s Suite, Op. 25, an example of his early supposedly ungracious 12-tone style, is just the thing to keep traditional audiences away. Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ungracious
Adjective
  • In interviews, Candy, who struggled with his weight for much of his life, had to deal with the press making rude comments about his size.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 4 Sep. 2025
  • This question becomes thornier once Dorotea visits Rocca in prison, finding her rude and abrasive though not irrational.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 27 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Seattle might not be a Super Bowl contender, but ranking the Seahawks 20th — three spots behind the last-place Arizona Cardinals, mind you — definitely feels pretty disrespectful.
    Matthew Schmidt, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Rachel then called him disrespectful.
    David Wysong, Cincinnati Enquirer, 4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • In 2014, he was found to have been discourteous and used force.
    Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 7 Mar. 2025
  • The main point is to avoid being discourteous of the people behind us by letting the door close in their respective faces.
    R. Eric Thomas, The Mercury News, 7 Jan. 2025

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“Ungracious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ungracious. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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