ingratitude
the state of being ungrateful; unthankfulness.
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How to use ingratitude in a sentence
Saying grace, though, “is medicine to the ingratitude that we can develop.”
Saying grace: How a moment of thanks, religious or not, adds meaning to our meals | Emily Heil | November 18, 2021 | Washington Postingratitude, conversely, is a failure to preserve and protect the gifts that one has received or has been entrusted with.
Equally important is for parents to instruct children to appreciate the damage that ingratitude can cause.
How parents are turning toward gratitude in the pandemic | Rudri Bhatt Patel | December 10, 2020 | Washington PostThat ingratitude's surprising, especially from the Israelis.
Yet such a move would almost certainly be widely seen as an audacious display of ingratitude.
AIG May Sue the Government For An Insufficiently Generous Bailout | Megan McArdle | January 8, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
The attorney suggested Bettencourt might try to disinherit her daughter for “ingratitude.”
Say that my anger has no bounds—that my heart is breaking—will break and kill me, if he persists in his ingratitude and cruelty.
Planner, in these three words, could only read—ingratitude—the basest it had ever been his lot to meet.
He carried the note to Planner—he thrust it into his face, and called him to account for his baseness and ingratitude.
He could not complain of the neglect of mankind, or of the ingratitude of those he served.
She was far too sensible for ingratitude, and fully appreciated the gifts that life had so liberally dealt her.
Ancestors | Gertrude Atherton
British Dictionary definitions for ingratitude
/ (ɪnˈɡrætɪˌtjuːd) /
lack of gratitude; ungratefulness; thanklessness
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