ingrate
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I am sure he thought I was an ingrate but said they never locked their door — it was the Colony.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2024
Even if doing so served only to save an ingrate from herself.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 23, 2022
That outraged Fleetwood’s parents as well as hers, who all viewed her as an ingrate who didn’t appreciate the rich life she’d been given.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 30, 2020
When “Life with Picasso” first came out, this kind of anecdote did not go over well with Picasso’s supporters, who denounced Gilot as a spiteful ingrate and rushed in to avenge the great man.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 15, 2019
“And just when he had gotten it to the point of learning to eat nothing at all, the ingrate up and died. I suppose you have heard that story?”
From "The Devil's Arithmetic" by Jane Yolen
To Villanueva, all the litigation, as well as the senior officials who have gone on medical leave, are just more examples of him being wronged by ingrates.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2022
So they feel they've got these ingrates who are their subjects, who are providing no level of appreciation for how much pain they have endured.
From Salon ● Mar. 18, 2020
We should also be ingrates and ask: Could he have run faster?
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2017
Scalia said sarcastically: “These plaintiffs are ingrates, right? You’re really helping them?”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 22, 2015
Think of the way we rushed the greedy ingrates!
From Marjorie Dean College Junior by Pauline Lester
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