Ingratitude
[ɪn'grætɪtjuːd] or [ɪn'ɡrætɪtud]
Definition
(n.) Want of gratitude; insensibility to, forgetfulness of, or ill return for, kindness or favors received; unthankfulness; ungratefulness.
Editor: Moore
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Unthankfulness, thanklessness.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See GRATITUDE]
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Definition
n. unthankfulness: the return of evil for good.
Typist: Ollie
Examples
- To account for your own hard-heartedness and ingratitude in such a case, you are bound to prove the other party's crime. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Ingratitude is to be sure a heinous sin, said Fanny shaking her head, and laughing incredulously. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- But woe betide the one who has committed an act of bad faith, treachery, dishonesty, or ingratitude; THEN Edison can show what it is for a strong man to get downright mad. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I was better after I had cried than before,--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I protest against ingratitude. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- That he had, from his birth, displayed no better qualities than treachery, ingratitude, and malice. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Whoever labours for man must often find ingratitude, watered by vice and folly, spring from the grain which he has sown. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Tell me of my ingratitude. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I became the victim of ingratitude and cold coquetry--then I desponded, and imagined that my discontent gave me a right to hate the world. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- There was the pupil's youth, the pupil's manhood;--his avarice, his ingratitude, his implacability, his inconstancy. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Maurice, I'm really and truly ashamed of your ingratitude to God for His many gifts. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Absolute neglect of the mother and sisters, when invited to come, would be ingratitude. Jane Austen. Emma.
- I, who am owing all my happiness to _you_, would not it be horrible ingratitude in me to be severe on them? Jane Austen. Emma.
- There she sat plunged in sullen dudgeon, the gloomiest speculations on the depths of man's ingratitude absorbing her thoughts. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- My sufferings were augmented also by the oppressive sense of the injustice and ingratitude of their infliction. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
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