ungracious

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
ungracious
    adj 1: lacking charm and good taste; "an ungracious industrial
           city"; "this curt summary is not meant to be ungracious";
           "ungracious behavior" [ant: {gracious}]
    2: lacking social graces [syn: {discourteous}, {ungracious}]
    
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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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
47 Moby Thesaurus words for "ungracious":
      abrupt, bluff, brusque, churlish, closed, disagreeable,
      discourteous, disrespectful, gauche, gruff, ill, ill-bred,
      impolite, inaffable, inhospitable, insolent, overbearing, rude,
      surly, unaccommodating, unaffectionate, unamiable, unbenign,
      unbenignant, unceremonious, uncivil, uncompassionate,
      uncompassioned, uncomplaisant, uncordial, uncourteous, uncourtly,
      unfriendly, ungallant, ungenial, ungentlemanly, unhospitable,
      unkind, unkindly, unladylike, unloving, unmannerly, unneighborly,
      unpolite, unreceptive, unsympathetic, unsympathizing

    

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