inappreciative

Example Sentences

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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

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

Wherefore let it be understood that in writing this study I have been speaking entirely for myself, and if any man think me misguided, inappreciative, hypercritical, frivolous, or anything else, why, he is welcome.

From G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study by West, Julius

Was it a tempting demon that said to him, "Lorenzo Sforza might have shielded this treasure from the profanation of lawless violence, from the brute grasp of an inappreciative peasant, but Father Francesco cannot"?

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 44, June, 1861 Creator by Various

The Forest Laws, made by legislators inappreciative of village difficulties, press hardly on them, and only in a small number of places have Forest Panchayats been established.

From The Case for India by Besant, Annie Wood