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Ungrateful   /əngrˈeɪtfəl/   Listen
adjective
Ungrateful  adj.  
1.
Not grateful; not thankful for favors; making no returns, or making ill return for kindness, attention, etc.; ingrateful.
2.
Unpleasing; unacceptable; disagreeable; as, harsh sounds are ungrateful to the ear.





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"Ungrateful" Quotes from Famous Books



... understand you; no more he does, but don't go on thinking about it. You think it is a great bore to be your father's only son, and wish Francis was instead. That's cross; you may think it's fine, but it isn't, and it is also ungrateful. You can have great fun if you will ...
— Michael • E. F. Benson
... gasoline and some provisions, we set out for the Ferry; and it was a sorry, bedraggled trio that limped up to camp eight hours later. We did little more than creep the last five miles. And all for a spiteful little engine that might prove ungrateful in the end! ...
— The River and I • John G. Neihardt
... Intention. Whatever may have been his Meaning, finding fault is certainly the easiest Task of Knowledge, and commonly those Men of good Judgment, who are likewise of good and gentle Dispositions, abandon this ungrateful Province to the Tyranny of Pedants. If one would enter into the Beauties of Shakespear, there is a much larger, as well as a more delightful Field; but as I won't prescribe to the Tastes of other People, so I will only take the liberty, with all due Submission to the Judgment of ...
— Some Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespear (1709) • Nicholas Rowe
... next room the passionate melancholy of a waltz was mocked and travestied by the frantic and ungrateful whirl that only Americans are capable of executing; the music lived alone in upper air; of men and dancing it was all unaware; the involved cadences rolled away over the lawn, shook the dew-drooped roses on their stems, and went upward into the ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. II, No. 8, June 1858 • Various
... very ungrateful to her if I ever am so," said the poor Italian, with all his natural gallantry. Many a good wife, who thinks it is a reproach to her if her husband is ever 'out of spirits,' might have turned peevishly from that speech more elegant than sincere, ...
— The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 • Various


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