ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Ungraciousness

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Ungraciousness is a noun meaning The state or quality of being ungracious.

Meaning

The state or quality of being ungracious.

Example Sentences

Old Mack came walking toward them. He frowned, spoke sharply, and walked on ahead of Rolandsen to the office. All ungraciousness. Then he said: ¶ “Last time, I asked you to sit down. This time, I don’t.”
Her mother’s ungraciousness, made the sense of what they owed him more painful to Elizabeth’s mind; and she would, at times, have given any thing to be privileged to tell him, that his kindness was neither unknown nor unfelt by the whole of the family.
For (I am sorry to say it) when one turns one’s Eyes to the bad Precedents given by the Heads of some Families, it is hardly to be wonder’d at, that there is so little Virtue and Religion among Men. For can those Parents be surpris’d at the Ungraciousness of their Children, who hardly ever shew them, that their own Actions are govern’d by reasonable or moral Motives?

Synonyms for ungraciousness

Depending on context, synonyms include cold-heartedness, ingratitude, unkindness.

Antonyms for ungraciousness

Common opposites include graciousness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include ungracefulness, ungratefulness, ungrudgingness, grudgingness, unthankfulness, uncomradeliness.

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