What's the difference between ingracious and unkind?

Ingracious


Definition:

  • (a.) Ungracious; unkind.

Example Sentences:

Unkind


Definition:

  • (a.) Having no race or kindred; childless.
  • (a.) Not kind; contrary to nature, or the law of kind or kindred; unnatural.
  • (a.) Wanting in kindness, sympathy, benevolence, gratitude, or the like; cruel; harsh; unjust; ungrateful.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Clearly, therefore, image is everything, especially in a world that can still be unkind to geeky people venturing out in public wearing their latest invention.
  • (2) You know, I don't mean to be unkind but I think you should put your phone down because you're just being a dick, really, just enjoy the gig because it's a better … it's a dick job, filming the show.
  • (3) Somehow, British zoos still enjoy a protected, deeply forgiving space, in a nation of pet lovers, for manifest unkindness towards animals.
  • (4) Mottling of teeth can have significant psychological impact on patients--particularly on adolescents, who may be subjected to much unkind teasing.
  • (5) This agenda might unkindly be described as systematic anti-liberalism with a seasoning of resentment and paranoia.
  • (6) The place to go in parliament for unkind evaluations of Miliband’s legacy is the Labour benches.
  • (7) But sometimes the revelations come fast, and when they do, they are usually particularly unkind.
  • (8) But clearly results have been immeasurably more crushing and unkind than I could ever have feared.
  • (9) I'd forgotten quite how swathey it was, rather unkindly imagining literary novelists and Big Thinkers in stripped-pine north London would be over-represented.
  • (10) And while Özil is allowed to have a poor game, it is hard to block out the memory of those unkind whispers on his departure from Madrid about his conditioning and stamina.
  • (11) Irony Steven Friedman , director of Rhodes and Johannesburg universities, said: "It has to be said that one of the great ironies of the debates about how we should receive Barack Obama is that, while a lot of South Africans are very sympathetic to him because he's the first African-American president, "I don't think that it's unkind to say that he's done absolutely nothing for this continent.
  • (12) I got to know him quite well after that and never once did I see him being unkind or inconsiderate to people.
  • (13) The academic Steve Bruce once unkindly stated: "When Ulster Protestants talk about being British, it is clear that the Britain they have in mind is no more recent than the 1950s, and often their points of reference are positively Victorian."
  • (14) Unkind though it is to remind him of his own cruel witticism aimed at Gordon Brown when he was at his weakest, there is now more than something of Mr Bean about Dr Cable.
  • (15) If modern life is unkind to our mental health, it’s no doubt in part because so many young people fear that admission of vulnerability will affect their employment, or their relationships, at a time when their futures are already far less clear than those of their parents.
  • (16) The results of this study lend weight to the argument that those who wish to have their facial abnormalities reduced may be accurately reporting that society is unkind to them.
  • (17) History tends to be unkind to those who embrace the evil practices of those they once denounced.
  • (18) Ruben Loftus-Cheek provided the visitors’ second, sliding a pass through the centre for Oscar to collect before McFadzean was aware of his presence, the finish crisply clipped into the far corner from an unkind angle.
  • (19) The crime also inspired a Bollywood film – on which MacKeown was never consulted, but later said “was not unkind” in its depiction of her daughter.
  • (20) On Thursday, as one SNP fundraising leaflet unkindly but accurately put it, the party has a chance to “complete the set”, making it the dominant force in all areas of Scotland’s political life.

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