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with bad grace
Idioms and Phrases
Reluctantly, rudely, as in He finally agreed to share the cost, but with bad grace . [Mid-1700s] Also see with good grace .Example Sentences
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!”
More often than not the merchant "got away with it"—or, if not, made good with bad grace, in which case the customer was satisfied.
Bad′ness.—Bad blood, angry feeling; Bad coin, false coin; Bad debts, debts that cannot be recovered; Bad shot, a wrong guess.—To go bad, to decay; To go to the bad, to go to ruin; To the bad, to a bad condition: in deficit.—With bad grace, unwillingly.
The three plotters accepted their defeat with bad grace.
They met this news with bad grace, but followed the directions.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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