ingrate
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I am sure he thought I was an ingrate but said they never locked their door — it was the Colony.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2024
When “Life with Picasso” first came out, this kind of anecdote did not go over well with Picasso’s supporters, who denounced Gilot as a spiteful ingrate and rushed in to avenge the great man.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 15, 2019
Then he’ll look around for more before disappearing, like the ingrate that he is, back into his foul and riled depths.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 25, 2015
In the end, the ingrate left the Met nothing.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 11, 2015
I could see buzzards circling high in the distance, which reminded me of that ingrate Buster.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
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To Villanueva, all the litigation, as well as the senior officials who have gone on medical leave, are just more examples of him being wronged by ingrates.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2022
Now, as the father of two magical little ingrates myself, I recognize the enormity of my past behavior but also sympathize with why he may have let it slide.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 14, 2021
So they feel they've got these ingrates who are their subjects, who are providing no level of appreciation for how much pain they have endured.
From Salon ● Mar. 18, 2020
Either there’s some part of this story that’s being left out, or your mother’s husband’s children are a bunch of cruel, heartless ingrates.
From Slate ● Nov. 7, 2013
He was determined to intimidate his enemies by a grand example, and avenge his kingly self-respect by bringing his power home to the ingrates who made no account of his indulgence.
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 3 by Black, Robert
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