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not grateful — typically inappropriately so- Actually, I shouldn't even be writing this, since it makes me seem so ungrateful, but .... I sometimes wonder if anyone will ever understand what I mean, if anyone will ever overlook my ingratitude and not worry about whether or not I'm Jewish and merely see me as a teenager badly in need of some good plain fun.Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl
ingratitude = ungratefulness
- Besides, what do I get in return for my efforts? Ingratitude and rude remarks.Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl
- Blow, blow, thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind, As man's ingratitude.Henry H. Neff -- The Second Siege
- I was enforc'd to send it after him; I was beset with shame and courtesy; My honour would not let ingratitude So much besmear it.William Shakespeare -- The Merchant of Venice
- Now you have abundance in your life, Lady Lu—an abundance of malice, ingratitude, and forgetfulness.Lisa See -- Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
- She will tax me with ingratitude.Henry James -- The American
- It was a dreadful picture of ingratitude and inhumanity; and Anne felt, at some moments, that no flagrant open crime could have been worse.Jane Austen -- Persuasion
- Nor was she pleased by the High Sparrow's endless truculence and ingratitude.George R.R. Martin -- A Feast For Crows
- There's nothing lower and uglier than ingratitude!Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged
- CROMWELL For the moment there is this: (Picks up a paper and reads) "I charge you with great ingratitude.Robert Bolt -- A Man for All Seasons
- Defiance and ingratitude reap no reward in my kingdom.Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge
- — meeting with such ingratitude, where so much kindness had been shewn, so much confidence had been placed!Jane Austen -- Sense and Sensibility
- But, Fanny, if your heart can acquit you of _ingratitude_—Jane Austen -- Mansfield Park
- Yet in leaving him I couldn't be accused of ingratitude.Jules Verne -- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
- My sufferings were augmented also by the oppressive sense of the injustice and ingratitude of their infliction.Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein
- People often discuss ingratitude.Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers — Modern English Edition 2
- The mere thought of this ingratitude Makes me suffer from a torture so crude ....Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Moliere -- Tartuffe
- I protest against ingratitude.Charles Dickens -- Little Dorrit
- Marius shuddered at that reproach of ingratitude directed against his father, and which he was on the point of so fatally justifying.Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
- I remember he used words like 'failure' and 'ingratitude,' and once he said very clearly, 'I know how well I have performed my duty.'William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
ingratitude = lack of appreciation