inappreciative
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of inappreciative
First recorded in 1895–1900; in- 3 + appreciative
Example Sentences
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After much hesitation, a grammar-school, built by an enterprising landlord for an inappreciative population that had declined to support it, was selected as the most suitable location for the festivities.
From Muslin by George (George Augustus) Moore
Excusing herself for a few moments, she goes away, rather vexed that Violet should be so inappreciative.
From Floyd Grandon's Honor by Amanda Minnie Douglas
The flagon of dandelion vintage played its due part in the repast, and Mr. Bleak began to entertain a new respect for this common flower of which he had been unduly inappreciative.
From In the Sweet Dry and Dry by Bart Haley
He threatens to leave us to our barbarism, and no longer to waste his culinary talents upon an ungrateful and inappreciative people.
From The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 by Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe
His discontent passed vapor-like through all her gentle loving manifestations, and clung to that inappreciative world which she had only brought nearer to him.
From Middlemarch by George Eliot
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