inappreciative

Example Sentences

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You must have thought me rude and inappreciative; but the fact is I was so startled that I forgot to tell you why I went.

From The Nebuly Coat by Falkner, John Meade

His discontent passed vapor-like through all her gentle loving manifestations, and clung to that inappreciative world which she had only brought nearer to him.

From Middlemarch by Eliot, George

The loss is little to be regretted, since the biographical part of earlier memoirs must have been scanty, and the criticism inappreciative.

From Samuel Johnson by Stephen, Leslie, Sir

The Boers, inappreciative of pluck in that form, kept up a steady fire on the wounded trooper and his heroic officer until they were safe out of range.

From Four Months Besieged The Story of Ladysmith by Pearse, H. H. S. (Henry Hiram Steere)

He would rather ask too many questions than run the risk of seeming inappreciative.

From Children of the Wild by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir