inappreciative

Example Sentences

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He threatens to leave us to our barbarism, and no longer to waste his culinary talents upon an ungrateful and inappreciative people.

From The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 by Clappe, Louise Amelia Knapp Smith

After much hesitation, a grammar-school, built by an enterprising landlord for an inappreciative population that had declined to support it, was selected as the most suitable location for the festivities.

From Muslin by Moore, George (George Augustus)

The Boers, inappreciative of pluck in that form, kept up a steady fire on the wounded trooper and his heroic officer until they were safe out of range.

From Four Months Besieged The Story of Ladysmith by Pearse, H. H. S. (Henry Hiram Steere)

His discontent passed vapor-like through all her gentle loving manifestations, and clung to that inappreciative world which she had only brought nearer to him.

From Middlemarch by Eliot, George

Wherefore let it be understood that in writing this study I have been speaking entirely for myself, and if any man think me misguided, inappreciative, hypercritical, frivolous, or anything else, why, he is welcome.

From G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study by West, Julius