with a bad grace , auch: with bad grace

They took money for food with a bad grace.

Others had to have every word dragged out of them, speaking grudgingly, with a bad grace.

In charity no one gave more liberally or with a worse grace.

He said it with a bad grace, his confidence returning after the shock of her entry.

My situation became every moment more painful; I sustained the character of confidence with a worse grace than ever.

Now the attitude of the males creates a new conflict: it is with a bad grace that the an lets her go."

Milo gave way with a bad grace.

Master Buie subsided with a bad grace, muttering under his breath.

Orsino submitted with a bad grace.

"I don't really think it was wise of you to take-" Sh'gall sounded petulant and took the glass from her with a bad grace.

Dean, who had dreamed of an autumn wedding and a winter spent in a dreamy Japanese garden beyond the western sea, gave in with a bad grace.

He accepts, but with a bad grace, because, as everybody knows, he's taken a great unliking for Mrs. Bünz."

With a bad grace Captain Fourneau consented to spare him, and we carried him to the after-hold, which lay under the cabin.

Nynaeve was insisting on handing around the pole-lanterns and lighting them; Liandrin was acceding with a bad grace, apparently insisting on speed.

We reckon our lives, I hardly know why, from the date of our first sorry appearance in society, as if from a first humiliation; for no actor can come upon the stage with a worse grace.

But not perceiving this quite plainly--only seeing it by halves in a confused way--the laity sometimes suffer in peace and pocket, with a bad grace, and DO grumble very much.

It led to my remarking, with more zeal than discretion, that it came with a bad grace from him, to whom Startop had lent money in my presence but a week or so before.