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inappreciative

[in-uh-pree-shee-uh-tiv, -ey-tiv, -shuh-tiv] / ˌɪn əˈpri ʃi ə tɪv, -ˌeɪ tɪv, -ʃə tɪv /






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

From Children of the Wild by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts

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 Annie Wood Besant

After much hesitation, a grammar-school, built by an enterprising landlord for an inappreciative population that had declined to support it, was selected as the most suitable location for the festivities.

From Muslin by George (George Augustus) Moore

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 George Eliot

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 John Meade Falkner




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