ingrate
Americannoun
adjective
noun
adjective
Other Word Forms
- ingrately adverb
Etymology
Origin of ingrate
1350–1400; Middle English ingrat < Latin ingrātus ungrateful. See in- 3, grateful
Example Sentences
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I am sure he thought I was an ingrate but said they never locked their door — it was the Colony.
From Los Angeles Times
Even if doing so served only to save an ingrate from herself.
From Washington Post
To Villanueva, all the litigation, as well as the senior officials who have gone on medical leave, are just more examples of him being wronged by ingrates.
From Los Angeles Times
Instead, an aide to Ramzan Kadyrov, the autocrat who runs Chechnya, berated them at length on television as ingrates and forced them to recant.
From New York Times
He spoke of his estrangement from the game, of how, because of his refusal to indulge in the celebrations it offered him, he was viewed in some quarters as an ingrate.
From Los Angeles Times
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