The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ungracious \Un*gra"cious\, a.
Not gracious; showing no grace or kindness; being without good will; unfeeling.
--Shak.Having no grace; graceless; wicked. [Obs.]
--Shak.-
Not well received; offensive; unpleasing; unacceptable; not favored.
Anything of grace toward the Irish rebels was as ungracious at Oxford as at London.
--Clarendon. [1913 Webster] -- Un*gra"cious*ly, adv. -- Un*gra"cious*ness, n.
Wiktionary
adv. In an ungracious manner.
WordNet
adv. without grace; rigidly; "they moved woodenly" [syn: ungracefully, gracelessly, woodenly, without graciousness] [ant: graciously, graciously]
Usage examples of "ungraciously".
Though the young lady has behaved foolishly-even ungraciously, one might say-you, yourself, Colonel, have behaved as honorably as one would expect of the hero of the Potcher War.
As they were speaking Mr Harding still held her hand, but Griselda left it with him unwillingly, and therefore ungraciously, looking as though she were dragging it from him.
You don't understand, woman, even as we stand here talking, our Allies are rolling forward, eating up the German lines What I understand is that the milch cow has to be fed, and the cellars have to be mucked ouC While history passes me by, the comte capitulated ungraciously, and went muttering down to the cellar.
They came ungraciously, but after his dark, bodeful hints as to the necessity of their attending service at the grazier's homestead next day, he was invited inside and a place was cleared for him at the table.
After two songs, the fiddle and horn carried on alone while the drummer went around hat in hand ungraciously accept.
I gathered that there had been some structural damage in the process, but nonetheless the immense Icefyre had forced his way into the mothershouse, where he ungraciously placed his head, very briefly, upon the hearthstones, so that Dutiful’s promise to Elliania might be completely carried out.
After two songs, the fiddle and horn carried on alone while the drummer went around hat in hand ungraciously accepting the pennies doled out to him.
He spurned the notion, saying ungraciously that his friends would think it curst flat to be stuck down in the country with nothing to do all day, and nothing to enliven the evenings but short whist, or half-guinea commerce.
Ruth sighed a silent breath of relief for she had not consulted Sean on the new luncheon arrangements, but the two of them were instantly in deep discussion, and when the main course was served, Sean growled, Take care of the chicken, Mark, and I'll handle the duck, so that the two of them were carving and arguing at the same time, like members of the same family, and she covered her smile with her table napkin as Sean ungraciously conceded a debating point to his junior.