Used in a Sentence

graciously

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for graciously.

Editorial note

It's hard to respond graciously to comments that undermine your credibility, try not to let people wind you up.

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Quick take

In a gracious manner; with grace and courtesy.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of graciously gathered in one view.

adverb

In a gracious manner; with grace and courtesy.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for graciously.

adverb

In a gracious manner; with grace and courtesy.

Example sentences

1

It's hard to respond graciously to comments that undermine your credibility, try not to let people wind you up.

2

On the contrary, sorry if my criticism was too strongly worded, and kudos to you for taking it so graciously.

3

My good friend Bruno has graciously offered help with the development of Harvester OS!

4

John graciously agreed to the first in an interview feature I am calling Profiles in Computational Imagination.

5

You failed to concede the point graciously, although you did actually concede it.

6

This is great because it allows the other person to graciously concede your point, and to feel like they're the one helping you.

7

I accepted defeat as graciously as I could but I don't know what my future holds.

8

Nice, these look superior to the intel books (which intel graciously printed then mailed to me for free like 10 years ago, go intel!).

9

Paul Graham pretty much wrote the book on the subject (On Lisp) which he graciously offers as a free download since it's out of print.

10

He graciously accepted, and offered to do a full demonstration.

11

When Steve has needed to be corrected he takes it graciously, and I say this as someone who has corrected Steve before.

12

As a speaker at the conference we got to visit his home where he graciously hosted many anti spam geeks with his own resources.

Quote examples

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Logging in with the “mobiteam@icloud.com” apple ID and the password graciously provided in clear text, we have identified a typical QA team account...

2

He graciously played a tune we kept shouting out ("Nobody loves me but my momma, and sometimes I think she's lying too...") and shook our hands at the end of the show.

3

So I just scp them over to my workstation and: for $(ls syslog.*); do N=$(echo $i | awk -F"." '{print $2}'); mv $i syslog.$N.txt This, obviously, is sorely lacking when running a Windows machine, even with the cygwinesque wrapper they so graciously offer.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use graciously in a sentence?

It's hard to respond graciously to comments that undermine your credibility, try not to let people wind you up.

What does graciously mean?

In a gracious manner; with grace and courtesy.

What part of speech is graciously?

graciously is commonly used as adverb.