Sentence examples for was hardly gracious from inspiring English sources

Rusedski, though, was hardly gracious in defeat: "I tried my best.

He is hardly sounding gracious now.

It was no less uplifting, after two centuries of white men in charge, to see Hillary Clinton, who is hardly done campaigning, give a gracious concession speech to a winner, an African-American, who, as he put it, has "a father from Kenya and a mother from Kansas".

His audience was less than equally gracious; but that is hardly his fault.There have been a few reminders in the closing stages of his doomed campaign of why Americans once fell in love with the guy.

It was so gracious".

Bradley was commendably gracious.

He was very gracious.

He was not gracious.

"She was very gracious.

But Tom was incredibly gracious.

But she was very gracious".