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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

What kind of ingrate brings large quantities of prohibited food into a situation like this?

From Slate ● Mar. 9, 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

I could see buzzards circling high in the distance, which reminded me of that ingrate Buster.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls

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

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

Scalia said sarcastically: “These plaintiffs are ingrates, right? You’re really helping them?”

From Washington Post ● Apr. 22, 2015

The heroes of the Revolution, forgetting the justice for which they fought, put chains upon the limbs of others, and in their names the lovers of liberty were denounced as ingrates and traitors.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 3 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures by Robert Green Ingersoll


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