| If the man from the Labour Party says no, he appears ungracious and unwilling to put aside political differences in the name of unity. |
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| They were unlucky, but that doesn't excuse the ungracious manner of their exit. |
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| Perhaps you're feeling upset because of personal problems which have led you to behave in an ungracious manner? |
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| Holden has little need for Spencer's lecture, but he doesn't want to hurt his teacher's feelings by being short or ungracious. |
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| Given these circumstances, Lorenzo's rhyming reproach to his Yankee public, if ungracious, is surely understandable. |
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| 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. |
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| But my friends wanted sympathy, and it seemed ungracious of me not to empathize. |
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| You've got to downplay the compliment but you can't reject it because that seems ungracious. |
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| We are so relaxed, cheerful and sated after our meals that such a complaint would be ungracious. |
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| It would be stupid, which is far worse than ungracious, not to acknowledge that the prime minister has just completed the two most impressive weeks of his political career. |
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| But really, they've been so ungracious about the whole thing! |
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| But there it is, 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. |
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| With senior board members receiving massive pay hikes for 2003, it was rather ungracious of management to expect the workers to go without a pay rise. |
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| I have heard it raised in discussion that it might well be considered rude or ungracious to decline a gift. |
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| While my attitude can appear boorish and ungracious, in reality, of course, I am thankful for the opportunities that Canada has given me. |
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| One finds ungracious modern suburbs equally in western and easterrn Europe. |
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| Newt ungracious in defeat, Inauguration plans complete So positive he will succeed Forgot he lost should concede. |
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| It is terribly ungracious on the government's part to announce billions in surpluses, while leaving the needy to choose between getting adequate food and adequate clothing. |
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| Yet, by far, she is the most ungracious of anyone I have met. |
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| This attitude, which many considered to be both ungrateful and ungracious, sprang in part from a punctiliousness that was hard to penetrate and rendered him incapable of true friendship. |
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| Though reserved in manner, and sometimes irritable and ungracious, partly as a result of ill health and overwork, he could also show himself kindly, courteous, and forbearing, and he had the gift of winning and keeping love. |
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| Yet Mr Kissinger's intelligence, and his excitement at the sheer scale of his undertaking, shine through the narrative. Nixon emerges as an ungracious figure, but also as the original architect of the whole daring project. |
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| Dealing with Victor Yanukovich, an ungracious loser in last year's presidential race, would till recently have seemed absurd except in Ukraine's shape-shifting political culture. |
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| An ungracious host may give visitors one more reason to protest. |
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| These ungracious practices of his sons did impeach his journey to the Holy Land. |
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