Sentence examples for least gracious from inspiring English sources

One of the least gracious acts last week was the commercial TV bosses bagging the ABC ahead of the announcement of the $254m in cuts by Malcolm Turnbull on Wednesday.

At its least gracious can be cited the more general custom of giving the vendeuses ten per cent on all gowns they have sold — when and if ever the gowns are paid for.

There's O Brother Where Art Thou? (fun but lightweight), The Man Who Wasn't There (an underrated return-to-form), Intolerable Cruelty (intolerable, natch), The Ladykillers (forgettable), No Country for Old Men (strong moments in an overrated whole), and now there's Burn After Reading, which is the darkest and least gracious film of the Coens' careers.

A few correspondents, at least, were gracious.

If he is toxic, at least he is gracious.

You or I, shown evidence of our shoddy work, might at least pretend to be gracious about it, especially if that tossed-off work had made us wealthier than one hundred sultans.

You may not have a new friend or lover but at least you have been gracious and polite.

By agreeing to talk, Mr Tsvangirai is at least offering Mr Mugabe a gracious if necessarily gradual exit.

Imagine a pretty patio outside an Italian villa on a summer day in the 1920s (or at least in some calm, more gracious time between the world wars).

"Be careful, now!" she calls, and she's pleased to see that her daughter has been gracious or, at least, patient enough to wait her turn in the second group.

When he does come back, she can barely speak (he calls her "My gracious silence"), not least because Volumnia (Vanessa Redgrave), Coriolanus's terrifying mother, gets there first, greeting him as he kneels before her and, later, bandaging his wounds.