ingrate
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I am sure he thought I was an ingrate but said they never locked their door — it was the Colony.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2024
Even if doing so served only to save an ingrate from herself.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 23, 2022
What kind of ingrate brings large quantities of prohibited food into a situation like this?
From Slate ● Mar. 9, 2021
When “Life with Picasso” first came out, this kind of anecdote did not go over well with Picasso’s supporters, who denounced Gilot as a spiteful ingrate and rushed in to avenge the great man.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 15, 2019
"Besides, your mother is suffering overtime. God only knows why she loves an ingrate like you, but she does."
From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos
Call these recipients killjoys or ingrates or both, but you can’t say they’re wrong.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 1, 2023
To Villanueva, all the litigation, as well as the senior officials who have gone on medical leave, are just more examples of him being wronged by ingrates.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2022
So they feel they've got these ingrates who are their subjects, who are providing no level of appreciation for how much pain they have endured.
From Salon ● Mar. 18, 2020
Either there’s some part of this story that’s being left out, or your mother’s husband’s children are a bunch of cruel, heartless ingrates.
From Slate ● Nov. 7, 2013
What a set of ingrates you must consider us, Peggy.”
From Peggy Owen at Yorktown by Lucy Foster Madison
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