ungrateful
[uhn-greyt-fuh l]
- unappreciative; not displaying gratitude; not giving due return or recompense for benefits conferred: ungrateful heirs.
- unpleasant; distasteful; repellent: an ungrateful task.
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Origin of ungrateful
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Examples from the Web for ungrateful
Contemporary Examples
I know one shouldn't be ungrateful, but what is it about people giving your kids ridiculous presents when you are on holiday?
There will be tears, ungrateful betrayals, but at some point—if you keep your faith—the problem child will grow up.
Small children are ungrateful; to do one a favor is, from a business point of view, about as shrewd as making a subprime mortgage.
Historical Examples
My master would deem me ungrateful, Ambrose break his heart.
The Armourer's PrenticesCharlotte M. Yonge
How ungrateful to that God, who blessed them with such talents!
Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9)Samuel Richardson
I respect and love her with all my soul:—I should be a most ungrateful wretch if I did not.
Tales And Novels, Volume 5 (of 10)Maria Edgeworth
Do not consider me as your master—your tyrant; do not imagine that I think you ungrateful!
Tales And Novels, Volume 3 (of 10)Maria Edgeworth
I should be the most ungrateful wretch in the world, if I were to make him unhappy.
Tales And Novels, Volume 3 (of 10)Maria Edgeworth
ungrateful
- not grateful or thankful
- unrewarding or unpleasant; thankless
- (of land) failing to increase fertility in response to cultivation
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