ingrate

Even if doing so served only to save an ingrate from herself.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 23, 2022

He spoke of his estrangement from the game, of how, because of his refusal to indulge in the celebrations it offered him, he was viewed in some quarters as an ingrate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2022

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

Call these recipients killjoys or ingrates or both, but you can’t say they’re wrong.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 1, 2023

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

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

Dignity is a dish brought back up beautifully to the correct temperature, served to ingrates.

From Slate ● Nov. 25, 2019

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