Sentence examples for less than gracious from inspiring English sources

Our waiter that night was also less than gracious, and there were long waits between courses.

In a British newspaper, McEnroe described the sisters as less than gracious in victory.

Her suburban middle-class background has little in common with that of Zac Goldsmith and his family, who were less than gracious in defeat.

He would probably rather play Novak Djokovic twice than talk to journalists once – although, that said, he is never less than gracious and co-operative.

The reply from Shirokov, who had been playing non-league football four years earlier and had just made his debut for the national team, was less than gracious.

Sarkozy was deemed "less than gracious" for "avoiding tasting traditional Arab foods" and displaying a "bored look during the televised arrival sword ceremony".

The reply, in monotone, was: "Sir, would you like to purchase the kit?" I managed a less-than-gracious "yes" and was put on hold.

And lest the powerful guests in this less-than-gracious era forget their host, there is the handy name of the 3.38-by-6.38-inch placards that Republicans around the country are frantically calling in chits to get their hands on: "Pataki Passes".

Several less-than-gracious exchanges at the dispatch box have led to David Cameron being compared to Flashman, the fictional Victorian public-school bully and coward from Tom Brown's Schooldays who went on to star in a series of novels by George MacDonald Fraser.

While I feel sort of bad for Hand to God's Steven Boyer (even despite his less-than-gracious on camera expression when he lost), who is really great, it was also always clearly Alex Sharp's year to me.

He's the kind of dude who is not here to make friends, who will grate on Becca's nerves more and more as the season goes on, and who will probably make a less-than-gracious exit by episode 4. But for now, we get to watch him in all his "Zoolander" parody glory.