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With his burly build, close-cropped hair, eternal smirk and laconic voice, Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva has spent his first term trying to present himself as a lonely hero thanklessly taking on societal ills.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 27, 2022

Toiling thanklessly on behalf of a self-regarding professor, famous mostly in his own mind, they’re trapped in a vise of oppressive unhappiness that they feel powerless to escape.

From Washington Post • Mar. 18, 2022

Albisson is nobly tragic; Ould-Braham is a minx; Valentine Colasante, in the thanklessly overblown role of the maid Elisa, is determinedly desperate.

From New York Times • Oct. 18, 2021

Though they may toil thanklessly in the shadows, however, those staffers possess immense power to potentially circumscribe the range of available options and so influence the future mission.

From Salon • Jan. 27, 2020

"I wouldn't give the rappin' o' my finger for a nasty little smudgy, smoky grate fire," she declared rebelliously, thanklessly.

From The Power and the Glory by Keller, Arthur Ignatius