21 example sentences using ungracious.
Ungracious used in a sentence
Ungracious in a sentence as an adjective
It's a bit ungracious to tell someone what to get me, no? It all feels very alien and weird to me to have this problem.
I don't see this as ungracious. It's not as if he's saying Khan Academy went in the wrong direction.
The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor. -- Emerson
The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I could say your interpretation is ungracious or ungenerous, but I don't need to. I see it as valid, from your point of view.
He's a nice guy who does admirable work and many people think it ungracious to be rude when publicly discussing his language. Only reason?
Strava has let "Slide", their one project that could help put trails on the map, die an ungracious death. If you build a whole business model on top of free data, it may be worth considering improving that data.
More likely you’ll be painted as disgruntled, ungrateful, and ungracious. Essentially, not one of us.
But it's difficult not to seem ungracious. Josh Resig clearly knows what he's doing, at least in the general sense, and he was gushing with praise for Bret, while this reply basically says John did everything wrong.
Carmack's comment acknowledges as much without being ungracious to the author.
Typical ungracious, taking things to extremes toxic judgement from a hater. Maybe you shouldn't comment if you don't have anything constructive to say.
But my motivation has nothing to do with your ungracious views on managers needing to feel like bigshots. I'm sorry that you've evidently worked with poor management to the extent that this is your worldview.
But I insisted on taking up space and now I'm being ungracious about it. It's my party and I can treat people how I want is technically the truth, just like "I can do Open Source and ignore the concerns of my users" is technically the truth.
There's already two comments here about being "harsh" or "ungracious" towards Khan Academy which is ridiculous. The usual HN article that contains criticisms is usually limited to that.
If you want to say I was ungracious in replying to an incredibly terse statement, I do not disagree. But dishonesty doesn't enter into asking someone what they mean by a phrase that I haven't seen before--and which doesn't have Google hits--and asking for a citation.
More and more i've grown into the opinion that aspiring members of the professional class should be required to spend at least one year doing some form of ungracious working class labor. there are things you learn as a line cook or a garbage truck driver that not even the most elite school will ever be able to teach you.
I'm trying to write this in a way that does not come across as sarcastic or ungracious, but does it strike anyone else as odd that this change blocks on the next version of the underlying programming language?
While I agree, quite strongly, about your general point regarding the short memory and ungracious expectations of people at large, I also disagree, strongly, with your dismissal of the problem addressed in this article. By and large these problems are all man-made and have known remedies.
Is the parent commenter suggesting that nobody riding the google bus has the gumption and the decency to sanity check an obviously ungracious and impolite behavior ?
Eh, this is ungracious. Of course computationalism, eliminative materialism and so on are bosh.
I agree that McIntyre's tone is ungracious, and fear it may be counterproductive, but I don't think that the Karoly's email was that gracious either. In particular, he did not thank anyone for pointing out a flaw, rather for "also identifying" it, moments after it had been coincidentally found by the original authors.
Ungracious definitions
lacking charm and good taste; "an ungracious industrial city"; "this curt summary is not meant to be ungracious"; "ungracious behavior"
lacking social graces
See also: discourteous