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ingratitude

[in-grat-i-tood, -tyood] / ɪnˈgræt ɪˌtud, -ˌtyud /


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De Gaulle maddened his British hosts, and particularly Churchill, with his ceaseless complaints and ingratitude.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026

Standing up for yourself is portrayed as whining or ingratitude, and rejecting convention comes at a cost.

From BBC • Jan. 19, 2025

Seizing hold of the character’s emotional savagery, Jackson let us see that it was born not just from royal entitlement but also from filial selfishness and ingratitude.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 15, 2023

Their blinking patterns and expressions will be monitored to detect stress, fear, ingratitude, deception, boredom, ambivalence, and a host of other feelings, including whether her happiness mirrors her doll’s.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 6, 2022

To not help him, they believed, would be a greater moral offense and act of ingratitude than even his verbal attacks of hostility and hatred.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady



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