ungraciously

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for ungraciously
Adverb
  • Aimee Lou Wood, the British breakout star of The White Lotus season three, said Saturday Night Live has apologized after unkindly parodying her during Saturday night’s show.
    Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 13 Apr. 2025
  • She was always being driven mad by Kubrick, very unkindly.
    Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2024
Adverb
  • Active grants have been cruelly rescinded, leaving community theaters, local museums, facing sudden funding gaps and uncertainty over expenses for work already underway.
    Andrew Weinstein, Time, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Court filings from the former players allege how Lorch methodically groomed and abused children from some of the nation’s poorest communities, cunningly and cruelly preying on their desperation and love of the city game, on an almost industrial scale.
    Luke Cyphers, Sportico.com, 17 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • In the process, Joel heartlessly killed some innocent people, including medical professionals.
    EW.com, EW.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • There is a troubling suggestion of abuse, implying that Jack might have been ill-treated by his mom (and saved by Helen), rather than heartlessly abandoned.
    Tomris Laffly, Variety, 14 Aug. 2025
Adverb
  • Marty Supreme stars Chalamet as Marty Mauser, a ping pong player in the 1950s who ruthlessly pursues table tennis greatness.
    Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Oct. 2025
  • However, as China ruthlessly pursues independent innovation, domestic substitution of imports has become a policy priority to ensure tech self-sufficiency in critical industries.
    Ni Tao, Interesting Engineering, 21 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • Italy’s performance at World Cup 1978 and Euro 1980 on home soil was decent enough, but their sluggish form going into the tournament meant he was mercilessly mocked in the Italian press.
    Michael Cox, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Both sides have been fighting mercilessly over Sudanese gold mines.
    Charlie Campbell, Time, 15 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • The director plays up the humor a lot more than Westlake’s callously cynical prose, for better or worse.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2025
  • But after the Sriracha-maker callously withheld payments from Underwood, the relationship deteriorated and litigation followed.
    Kate Vitasek, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Adverb
  • The federal government shutdown enters its 21st day – headed toward its fourth week – as Democrats and Republicans remain bitterly divided over how to resolve rising health care costs.
    Bart Jansen, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Taylor makes a persuasive case for how artists can grow, if incrementally and maybe bitterly, amid so much numbing digital noise.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • In this volatile environment, comments that appear to minimize or frame the shooting insensitively—like Matt Gutman's—can quickly become career-ending.
    Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Sahroni has faced accusations of responding insensitively to people calling for parliament to be dissolved amid anger over lawmakers’ allowances.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 31 Aug. 2025
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“Ungraciously.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ungraciously. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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