ingratitude

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The evening the commissions were awarded George appreciated the ingratitudes and cruelties of service rather more keenly than he had done even as a youngster at Oakmont.

From The Guarded Heights by Camp, Wadsworth

I tell you, not so base as to despair, Yea, able to withstand ingratitudes.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 7 by Various

Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-siz'd monster of ingratitudes.

From Troilus and Cressida by Shakespeare, William

Indeed, of the many recorded ingratitudes of authors to publishers, Campbell's celebrated health to Napoleon because "he shot a bookseller" is one of the most ungrateful.

From A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) by Saintsbury, George

Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 12 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany by Ingersoll, Robert Green