with bad grace

Idioms  

1. Reluctantly, rudely, as in He finally agreed to share the cost, but with bad grace. [Mid-1700s] Also see with good grace.

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with bad grace

He was an untiring gambler, though he won and lost with bad grace.

From Time Magazine Archive

Folding the wings and shutting his eyes tightly, he shouted out with bad grace, “I promise never to kill or eat another mouse or shrew of any type as long as I live, so there!”

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

I've been devilishly wrong, Sand, and returned your hospitality and friendship with bad grace, old fellow, but I drifted into it and when it was too late—I did what seemed the only decent thing.

From A Son of the Hills by Comstock, Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa)

He threw down his gun with bad grace, saying as he did so: "If I had another cartridge I would never surrender."

From Vermont riflemen in the war for the union, 1861 to 1865 A history of Company F, First United States sharp shooters by Ripley, William Y. W.

The three plotters accepted their defeat with bad grace.

From Marjorie Dean, High School Junior by Lester, Pauline