(a.) Uncivil; rude; wanting in courtesy or good manners; uncourteous.
Example Sentences:
(1) But the fact that there is a serious disagreement between Zimbabwe and the United Kingdom does not mean that you should then be discourteous or rude."
(2) Half of each sample rated the average driver in their age group and the average driver in the opposite age group as regarded thirty-three attitudes promoting safe driving, twenty courteous safe driving behaviors and eleven discourteous, unsafe driving behaviors.
(3) I’ve certainly never heard anything as discourteous from anyone who has visited our country – and I’ve heard a lot of things.
(4) A spokeswoman said: "There is a meeting between management and unions and we have nothing to say before then because it would be discourteous to the unions and the process we have been involved in."
(5) Only 51% expressed a dislike of any aspect of the clinic (long waits, 24%; discourteous staff, 19%; and lack of cleanliness, 5%).
(6) In Louisville, Kentucky , several distress calls had been made by Latino voters saying they had been treated discourteously by election officials and discouraged from voting.
(7) Garvey naggers on with a question so weirdly phrased it sounds a bit discourteous.
(8) He was right to apologise because being discourteous to the police is a bad thing.
(9) Your coverage of Tom Watson’s excellent speech (theguardian.com, 27 September) noted that he called on Labour to stop “trashing the record” of the Blair and Brown governments but failed to mention his leading role in the “coup” against Mr Blair in 2006, which hastened his resignation a year later, prompting him to describe Watson’s actions as “disloyal, discourteous and wrong” and a “totally unnecessary attempt to unseat the party leader, less than 15 months after our historic third term victory” .
(10) Data shows that younger drivers viewed older drivers as overly cautious, too slow to act and apt to cause accidents, and rated their peers as overly aggressive and discourteous.
(11) But, by and large, the discourteousness has not been reciprocated.
(12) Blair attacked the move as “disloyal, discourteous and wrong” and Watson himself resigned.
(13) Giddings said that although he did not believe he had undermined or personally criticised Welby, he had apologised to the archbishop, who had since told him he had found nothing offensive, discourteous, impolite or disrespectful in his words.
(14) The judges were also asked to assess whether in their opinion the letters were of value in teaching or were discourteous.
(15) Nonetheless, Shkreli’s short appearance in Washington became explosive when committee members were infuriated by his discourteous facial expressions as the event unfolded.
(16) When I identified as either "raised as Christian" or "without belief", I never received a discourteous response, and had only one individual attempt to convert me during a discussion in the back office of his market.
(17) McIntyre responded with formal requests to Tom Karl at the National Climate Data Centre, where he guessed the data would have been held, and to the journal, saying Santer's response had been "discourteous".
Ungracious
Definition:
(a.) Not gracious; showing no grace or kindness; being without good will; unfeeling.
(a.) Having no grace; graceless; wicked.
(a.) Not well received; offensive; unpleasing; unacceptable; not favored.
Example Sentences:
(1) And then, a little ungraciously but we can't help ourselves because it's so much fun, a cheer when Dimitrov double-faults.
(2) "I don't want to be ungracious, but it's frankly not enough to pop up now and say: 'We'll do something about English language teaching'.
(3) Among Main's (1957) several cogent insights about the nature of defensive and countertransferential reactions to those so-called "special" patients who ungraciously refuse to improve - patients who in today's parlance would most assuredly be diagnosed as borderline - is his hypothesis that some of us may flee some of the time into research activities to avoid the frustrations and disappointments of clinical work.
(4) A spokesman for Waterstones, Jon Howell, called the critical reaction "ungracious sniping" and said Barnes was a worthy winner.
(5) But appearing in front of the media after the match, Kyrgios spoke of his own frustrations with his game, and sought to explain that ungracious sounding comment.
(6) Perhaps there is some odd flaw in his judgment of people – he had also been rather ungracious to those who had opposed his original selection as MEP in the east Midlands, such as the Chesterfield MP Paul Holmes whom he had sacked as housing spokesman.
(7) "It would feel ungracious to be carping about it, but it's very hard to know how to respond.
(8) Wenger declined to shake hands with Hughes after his Arsenal team were beaten by City at Eastlands at the start of this month, prompting Hughes to describe him as an ungracious loser.
(9) It was perhaps ungracious of Tarantino to bellow: "I'm here to sell my movie!
(10) Whelan said David Miliband's exit from the shadow cabinet was ungracious.
(11) "It would be ungracious of me not to congratulate UKRD on its victory and I wish UKRD well," said Gumbiner.
(12) Arriving onstage to collect this second award he ungraciously asked why the show hadn't been nominated in the comedy category too.