with bad grace
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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
However, he submitted with bad grace, and was enrolled as a pupil at the gymnasium in Bergen.
From Essays on Scandinavian Literature by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
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 William Y. W. Ripley
That comes with bad grace from an embryo scholar.
From Medoline Selwyn's Work by Hattie E. Colter
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