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
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
"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
They're all a lot of unliterate ingrates," said Cowels, "and for two cents I'd shake the whole show and go to work.
From Snow on the Headlight A Story of the Great Burlington Strike by Cy Warman
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