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
The ingrate: It was Whiteman who paid for Wilder’s first trip to Berlin, to cover one of Whiteman’s concerts.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 27, 2021
That outraged Fleetwood’s parents as well as hers, who all viewed her as an ingrate who didn’t appreciate the rich life she’d been given.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 30, 2020
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
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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
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
How should there not be ingrates in the world, when we expose this man to the temptation of being ungrateful with impunity?
From Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. by John Morley
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