ingrate
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He spoke of his estrangement from the game, of how, because of his refusal to indulge in the celebrations it offered him, he was viewed in some quarters as an ingrate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2022
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
Then he’ll look around for more before disappearing, like the ingrate that he is, back into his foul and riled depths.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 25, 2015
However, this ingrate has already confronted you and you reacted in real time.
From Slate ● Mar. 31, 2015
"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
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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
We should also be ingrates and ask: Could he have run faster?
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2017
Scalia said sarcastically: “These plaintiffs are ingrates, right? You’re really helping them?”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 22, 2015
These benefits are not addressed to ingrates, as was proved by the profound sorrow that reigned in the little city when the death of the benefactor of Creusot was learned.—Science et Nature.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885 by Various
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