ingrate
Example Sentences
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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
Pound may have been an ingrate, but the gratitude of generations will always be due Hall, for remembering.
From Washington Post • Dec. 24, 2021
What kind of ingrate brings large quantities of prohibited food into a situation like this?
From Slate • Mar. 9, 2021
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
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