with ill grace

English

Prepositional phrase

with ill grace

  1. Synonym of with bad grace.
    • 1957 September, M. D. Greville and G. O. Holt, “Railway Development in Manchester—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 649:
      Whether in consequence of this or not, the Liverpool company eventually gave way, and proceeded to build its portion of the work with some ill grace.
    • 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in RAIL, page 66:
      TfW has staff enforcing mask protocols at all the busy stations and most travellers oblige, albeit some with ill grace.
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