Ungraciously

Definition

ungracious /ʌn'greÇʃǝs / adj ႐ိုင္းေသာ။ မရည္မြန္ေသာ။ an ungracious public remark about her rival ❍ It was ungracious of me not to acknowledge your help. ❏ ungraciously adv မယဥ္မေက်း။ ႐ိုင္း႐ိုင္းပ်ပ်။

Examples

1. ‘But my friends wanted sympathy
2. and it seemed ungracious of me not to empathize.’
3. ‘In this fairly ungracious position (the view up my shorts for the bloke on the exercise bike opposite can't have been too nice) I started to do sit-ups.’
4. ‘We are so relaxed
5. cheerful and sated after our meals that such a complaint would be ungracious.’
6. ‘Except that
7. at the risk of sounding ungracious
8. I find it hard to believe my entire neighbourhood can be attacking this recycling business with the same degree of religious fervour.’
9. ‘Part of that triumphalism is the ungracious winner's desire to put his shoe on remaining critics
10. to silence small voices so they hear nothing but praise in their victory march.’
11. ‘It would be ungracious of me to hope that bad things happen to you in return
12. so I'll merely take solace in my knowledge that you have to go through life having a personality like that.’
13. ‘Holden has little need for Spencer's lecture
14. but he doesn't want to hurt his teacher's feelings by being short or ungracious.’
15. ‘It may seem ungracious to describe Galway's loss to Mayo in the Connacht under-21 football semi-final in Castlebar last Wednesday as a flop.’
16. ‘But really
17. they've been so ungracious about the whole thing!’
18. ‘They were unlucky
19. but that doesn't excuse the ungracious manner of their exit.’
20. ‘Perhaps someone could offer a reasonable explanation - not just a lame excuse - for this apparent cold
21. ungracious
22. disrespectful conduct and lapse in basic good manners?’
23. ‘He turned on chief executives with alarming regularity and would often speak for just a few minutes before heading for the door
24. leaving embarrassed party officials to try to explain away his ungracious behaviour.’
25. ‘Had you not been so ungracious when you were rightly called on the carpet for your plagiarism
26. perhaps you would have gotten a more gracious acceptance of your current admission that you wrong.’
27. ‘But there it is
28. so please don't force me to be ungracious to you by trying to insist that you're different and that an exception should be made for you.’
29. ‘You've got to downplay the compliment but you can't reject it because that seems ungracious.’
30. ‘Remember that his ungracious words about Irish rugby did not begin last week
31. they actually started in the summer when he outlined a series of reasons why South Africa could not lose to the likes of Ireland.’
32. ‘Given these circumstances
33. Lorenzo's rhyming reproach to his Yankee public
34. if ungracious
35. is surely understandable.’
36. ‘It would be stupid
37. which is far worse than ungracious
38. not to acknowledge that the prime minister has just completed the two most impressive weeks of his political career.’
39. ‘With senior board members receiving massive pay hikes for 2003
40. it was rather ungracious of management to expect the workers to go without a pay rise.’
41. ‘Perhaps you're feeling upset because of personal problems which have led you to behave in an ungracious manner?’