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Ungrateful   /əngrˈeɪtfəl/   Listen
adjective
Ungrateful  adj.  
1.
Not grateful; not thankful for favors; making no returns, or making ill return for kindness, attention, etc.; ingrateful.
2.
Unpleasing; unacceptable; disagreeable; as, harsh sounds are ungrateful to the ear.





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"Ungrateful" Quotes from Famous Books



... knowledge, that this Governor Harris was the first to propose the adoption of concerted measures, among the Southern Tribes, on the subject of Secession. This was instantly and earnestly opposed by John Ross, as being out of place, and an ungrateful violation of the Treaty obligations, by which the Tribes had placed themselves under the exclusive protection of the United States; and, under which, they had enjoyed a long course of peace ...
— The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War • Annie Heloise Abel
... reading of the law every seven years, xxxi. 1-13. Verses 16-30 (except 23) constitute the preface to the fine poem known as the Song of Moses, xxxii. 1-43, which celebrates, in bold and striking words, the loving faithfulness of Jehovah to His apostate and ungrateful people.[1] This poem, after a few verses in which Moses finally commends the law to Israel and himself receives the divine command to ascend Nebo and die, is followed by another known as the Blessing of Moses ...
— Introduction to the Old Testament • John Edgar McFadyen
... for?" said the ungrateful beast, springing to his legs, and eyeing his entertainer with one of ...
— The Adventures of a Bear - And a Great Bear too • Alfred Elwes
... wonder whom else I should go after? Who has been kind to me in Carlingford except the Mays? Nobody. Who has asked me to go to their house, and share everything that is pleasant in it? None of your Salem people, grandpapa. I hope I am not ungrateful, and whatever happens, or whatever trouble they are in," cried Phoebe, fervently, "I shall stand up for them through thick and ...
— Phoebe, Junior • Mrs [Margaret] Oliphant
... better stink the cubs out of the earth. I daresay they are old enough to look after themselves—at any rate I hope so. And now, Giles, we must shoot some of these hares when we begin on the partridges next week. There are too many of them, the tenants are complaining, ungrateful beggars as they are, seeing that I ...
— The Mahatma and the Hare • H. Rider Haggard


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