thankless

Example Sentences

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In “The Thankless Child,” Cinderella is named Paul; in “The Frog’s Princess,” a beautiful daughter’s gender pronouns are he/him.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 8, 2018

A Thankless Task I’ve bought gifts for my two nephews, now age 21 and 14, for years.

From New York Times • Aug. 19, 2010

Thankless indeed is the job that Fadden inherited.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thankless my office to decide on others' grievances; but still I must, for it brings disgrace on a man, having taken a thing in hand, to give it up.

From The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. by Euripides

But what the novelist Gogol said of himself and his audience fifty years ago is as true as ever: "Thankless is the task of whoever ventures to show what passes every moment before his eyes."

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright