inappreciative

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Gray's critical acuteness is not altogether at fault in this judgment, but half of his prophecy has failed, and his mention of Collins is singularly inappreciative.

From A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

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

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 Moore, George (George Augustus)

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

He threatens to leave us to our barbarism, and no longer to waste his culinary talents upon an ungrateful and inappreciative people.

From The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 by Clappe, Louise Amelia Knapp Smith