ungracious

Used with adjective complement

• seem: It seems ungracious to question the basis of the beliefs which inspire their heroic resistance.

Modifying Another Word

• little: But looking back recently through the papers which have accumulated over the past ten years perhaps I was a little ungracious to decline.
• somewhat: The somewhat ungracious driver asked me if I had ever been towed before.
• rather: A rather ungracious association as they ' seldome cease wagging ' .
• so: Hazel has never forgiven HE for being so ungracious about the quid pro quo that night he tweaked her nose.

Modifies a noun

• task: Abu ' Obeida had an ungracious task, seeing that to the degraded warrior he was beholden for his victories in Syria.
• way: What we did see was the ungracious way the Ass players ( didn't ) accept defeat.