thankless
Example Sentences
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How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless audience.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2026
Being an executor is often a lonely, time-consuming and thankless task.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 18, 2025
Neither of ABT’s two hardworking casts, with leading couples framed by male and female ensembles, made their dramatically opaque and intermittently acrobatic work look more than thankless.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 3, 2025
She reckons it was a thankless task - important, but frankly, a bit dull.
From BBC • Oct. 11, 2025
Instead, Nana had endured the shame of bearing a harami, had shaped her life around the thankless task of raising Mariam and, in her own way, of loving her.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
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