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ingrate

[in-grayt] / ˈɪn greɪt /
NOUN
ungrateful person
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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

Pound may have been an ingrate, but the gratitude of generations will always be due Hall, for remembering.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 24, 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

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

“And just when he had gotten it to the point of learning to eat nothing at all, the ingrate up and died. I suppose you have heard that story?”

From "The Devil's Arithmetic" by Jane Yolen

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

Instead, an aide to Ramzan Kadyrov, the autocrat who runs Chechnya, berated them at length on television as ingrates and forced them to recant.

From New York Times ● Jul. 10, 2022

Now, as the father of two magical little ingrates myself, I recognize the enormity of my past behavior but also sympathize with why he may have let it slide.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 14, 2021

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

Oh, we are no ingrates, to reward you with ingratitude; be sure and certain of that.

From The Youth of the Great Elector by L. (Luise) Mühlbach


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