Sample Sentences for
ingratitude
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    He pulled me away toward the door, and I followed him while Van Houten ranted to Lidewij about the ingratitude of contemporary teenagers and the death of polite society, and Lidewij, somewhat hysterical, shouted back at him in rapid-fire Dutch.  (source)
    ingratitude = lack of gratefulness
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    The words insolence and ingratitude came into it frequently, I seem to recall.  (source)
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    But the extreme anger the discussion of ingratitude inspires proves that most people feel grateful.  (source)
    ingratitude = ungratefulness
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    Now you have abundance in your life, Lady Lu—an abundance of malice, ingratitude, and forgetfulness.  (source)
    ingratitude = ungratefulness
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    Only her private grief and public ingratitude could at times bear her down.  (source)
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    Still, I must remember "the sin of ingratitude" and be appreciative.†  (source)
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    I decided not to bring up the ingratitude part, just exactly because it drew me so, because the sound of her voice made it shine more and more brightly.†  (source)
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    If he starts this Union business in the factory ...I've noticed some signs, some rudeness, some ingratitude.†  (source)
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    What she really wants is a daughter-in-law who can be moulded, not by Simon, but by herself; and so the girls continue to be floated past him, and he continues to turn away indifferently, and to be gently accused by his mother of laziness and ingratitude.†  (source)
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    My sufferings were augmented also by the oppressive sense of the injustice and ingratitude of their infliction.†  (source)
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    He bore with philosophy the conviction that Elizabeth must now become acquainted with whatever of his ingratitude and falsehood had before been unknown to her; and in spite of every thing, was not wholly without hope that Darcy might yet be prevailed on to make his fortune.†  (source)
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    This I learned from her benefactress; from the pious and charitable lady who adopted her in her orphan state, reared her as her own daughter, and whose kindness, whose generosity the unhappy girl repaid by an ingratitude so bad, so dreadful, that at last her excellent patroness was obliged to separate her from her own young ones, fearful lest her vicious example should contaminate their purity: she has sent her here to be healed, even as the Jews of old sent their diseased to the troubled pool of Bethesda; and, teachers, superintendent, I beg of you not to allow the waters to stagnate round her.†  (source)
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    After constant indulgence of one's weak nature, and the other's bad one, I earn for thanks two samples of blind ingratitude, stupid to absurdity!†  (source)
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