appreciate
verb (used with object)
to be grateful or thankful for.
unappreciating
-
a word derived from
appreciate.
Example Sentences
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Ah, dear Sarianna—I don't complain for myself of an unappreciating public.
From Life and Letters of Robert Browning by Robert Browning
I was well aware of the fact that I was no fool, although I had often been called one by my hostile and unappreciating relatives, whose opinions I had ever held in most supreme contempt.
From My Life: or the Adventures of Geo. Thompson Being the Auto-Biography of an Author. Written by Himself. by George Thompson
Ah! dear Sarianna, I don't complain for myself of an unappreciating public—I have no reason.
From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II by Sir Frederic G. (Frederic George) Kenyon
Was Mrs. Hemans designed but to serve her surly and unappreciating lord?
From Lives of Celebrated Women by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich
"Must they waste their sweetness and value on the unappreciating air?"
From Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author by Caroline Lee Hentz
