Both Uses of
ingratitude
in
Oliver Twist
- That he had, from his birth, displayed no better qualities than treachery, ingratitude, and malice.†
Chpt 17 *
- …IN THE IMPROVING SOCIETY OF HIS REPUTABLE FRIENDS About noon next day, when the Dodger and Master Bates had gone out to pursue their customary avocations, Mr. Fagin took the opportunity of reading Oliver a long lecture on the crying sin of ingratitude; of which he clearly demonstrated he had been guilty, to no ordinary extent, in wilfully absenting himself from the society of his anxious friends; and, still more, in endeavouring to escape from them after so much trouble and expense…†
Chpt 18
Definition:
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(ingratitude) not grateful -- typically inappropriately so