Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not agreeable.
- Ungrateful.
- noun An ungrateful person; an ingrate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Displeasing; ungrateful; ingrate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete
displeasing ;ungrateful ;ingrate
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Examples
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Indeed, my dear and ever indulgent aunt Selby, you have given me pain; and yet I am very ungrate-ful, I believe, to say so: but if I feel the pain (though perhaps I ought not) should I not own it?
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Charming creature! he called me, with passion in his look and accent: then, Cruel, proud, ungrate-ful: and swore by his Maker, that if I would not give my hand instantly, instead of exalting me, he would humble me.
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I were an ungrate not to speak well of her, 'We get a glimpse of Maria and her husband long years afterwards when a pensioner in a Spanish almshouse revealed himself as the son of
George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends Clement King Shorter 1891
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-- 'Tis a small misfortune to oblige an ungrate - ful man; but it is unbearable to be obliged by a scoundrel.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims Fran��ois duc de La Rochefoucauld 1646
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Achilles, thus affronted, complains to his mother Thetis; and begs her to revenge his injury, not only on the general, but on all the army, by giving vidlory to the Trojans, till the ungrate - ful king became fenfible of his injuftice.
The works of the British poets : with prefaces, biographical and critical 1795
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And further, the more afifcftionate this regard to him on all occafions is, the better it will fuit,. not ur tendered earthly regards may be infenfible or ungrate -
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An ungrate - ful foil, which is not improveahle by culture, hath forced them to have recourfe to filhing, though the fea, which they can fcarce venture up tion of their charader.
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"Your requests are high honors, which only an ungrate would refuse.
Dear Carl Ginny Woods 2010
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"Heed her not," said sister Lucille, perusing in (he features of Juliette the expression of sadness j "she is ungrate - ful for kindness, and dead to the soft al - leviations of friendship. '
The confessional of Valombre Louisa Sidney Stanhope 1812
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