ingrate
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The names they called me sting to this day: Eric the Ingrate.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 16, 2022
Tell all you know about your best friends, Mistress Ingrate; we have naught to fear.”
From Joscelyn Cheshire A Story of Revolutionary Days in the Carolinas by Kennedy, Sara Beaumont
Ingrate that I was, I turned my back upon the Aigle, and was thankful when Sir Samuel and Lady Turnour walked out of my sight around the corner of the picture.
From The Motor Maid by Williamson, C. N. (Charles Norris)
That we have been familiar, Ingrate forgetfulness shall poison, rather Than pity note how much.—Therefore be gone.
From Coriolanus by Shakespeare, William
And as he thus maligned love he saw its ironic, tender smile saying to him: "Ingrate!"
From Jean-Christophe Journey's End by Cannan, Gilbert
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