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

Excusing herself for a few moments, she goes away, rather vexed that Violet should be so inappreciative.

From Floyd Grandon's Honor by Douglas, Amanda Minnie

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)

The flagon of dandelion vintage played its due part in the repast, and Mr. Bleak began to entertain a new respect for this common flower of which he had been unduly inappreciative.

From In the Sweet Dry and Dry by Haley, Bart