ingrate

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For two years, this ingrate has been my suitor--my lover.

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  1. noun An ungrateful person.

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  • Now it was quite clear to him that his brother had been murdered by the perfidious ingrate, and so forth, and so on. —  Out of the Past - Patricia Wentworth - Miss Silver 23: 1953
  • I am not such an ingrate--her happiness is the prayer of my soul to heaven, and I would perish to insure it De Val. —  The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1
  • And Alathea's voice was murmuring in French Pardon, pardon, j' etais si bien ingrate--Pardonnez moi--Hein? —  Man and Maid
  • And to the ende that I may not be vtterly ingrate, and that you doe not departe from me, altogether miscontent, I doe promise you nowe that from henceforth, you shall inioye the first place of my harte, whereunto another shall neuer enter: if so be you can be content with honest amitie, wherein you shall finde me in time to come so liberall, in all that whiche honestie shall permitte, that I am contente to forgoe the name of a presumptuous or cruell Damosell for your sake. —  The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1
  • Ingratitude always recoils upon the ingrate, and Henry's loss was greater than Wolsey's when Wolsey fell Henry really liked, or, rather, admired, Brandon, as had often been shown, but his nature was incapable of real affection. —  When Knighthood Was in Flower or, the Love Story of Charles Brandon and Mary Tudor the King's Sister, and Happening in the Reign of His August Majesty King Henry the Eighth
 

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  1. From Middle English ingrat, ungrateful, from Old French, from Latin ingrātus : in-, not; see in-1 + grātus, pleasing, thankful; see gwerə-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English ingrat, from Old French (and F.) ingrat = Spanish Portuguese Italian ingrato, from Latin ingratus, unpleasant, disagreeable, unthankful, from in- privative + gratus, pleasing, thankful: see grate, grateful.
 

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