ungraciousness

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
ungraciousness
    n 1: an offensive lack of good manners [ant: {graciousness}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Ungracious \Un*gra"cious\, a.
   1. Not gracious; showing no grace or kindness; being without
      good will; unfeeling. --Shak.
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   2. Having no grace; graceless; wicked. [Obs.] --Shak.
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   3. Not well received; offensive; unpleasing; unacceptable;
      not favored.
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            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.
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