UNGRACIOUSNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ungraciousness mean? 

• UNGRACIOUSNESS (noun)
  The noun UNGRACIOUSNESS has 1 sense:

1. an offensive lack of good manners

  Familiarity information: UNGRACIOUSNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNGRACIOUSNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An offensive lack of good manners

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("ungraciousness" is a kind of...):

discourtesy; rudeness (a manner that is rude and insulting)

Antonym:

graciousness (excellence of manners or social conduct)

Derivation:

ungracious (lacking social graces)

 Context examples 

Her mother's ungraciousness, made the sense of what they owed him more painful to Elizabeth's mind; and she would, at times, have given anything to be privileged to tell him that his kindness was neither unknown nor unfelt by the whole of the family.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)