Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Ungracious.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Ungracious; unkind.

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  • adjective obsolete ungracious; unkind.

Etymologies

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in- +‎ gracious

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Examples

  • She stood by lousy advisors, didn't have a plan for an end-game, played cynical politics, threw the kitchen sink at a FELLOW democrat and was ingracious and acted entitled the whole way.

    Carter says unity ticket would be 'worst mistake' 2008

  • In short, beneath that smooth, calm veneer, Barack Obama was ingracious and rude in a setting designed to epitomize the opposite.

    Now WE must earn Obama's Nobel 2009

  • In short, beneath that smooth, calm veneer, Barack Obama was ingracious and rude in a setting designed to epitomize the opposite.

    Now WE Must Earn Obama's Nobel! 2009

  • I can quantify only in the vaguest way (e.g., “a shitload”) the parties, coffeehouse meetings, and pre-colloquium introductions where socialist horseshit was used as a source of comraderie, while expressing a conservative or libertarian viewpoint in that situation would have seemed at best ingracious and at worst bellicose.

    Conservatives for Affirmative Action 2005

  • If you want to make a comment about something in an ingracious way, feel free to do it on the public airways.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • I spoke carefully and didn't cuss or act ingracious.

    Wide Lawns and Narrow Minds Wide Lawns 2010

  • I spoke carefully and didn't cuss or act ingracious.

    Wide Lawns and Narrow Minds 2010

  • But from him, it sounds ingracious and ungrateful.

    Lake Neuron 2010

  • It would be ingracious of him, of course, because he made $100 million with RSS.

    Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now Tom Krazit 2009

  • It would be ingracious of him, of course, because he made $100 million with RSS.

    U.S. News 2009

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