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
What kind of ingrate brings large quantities of prohibited food into a situation like this?
From Slate ● Mar. 9, 2021
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
I could see buzzards circling high in the distance, which reminded me of that ingrate Buster.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
Call these recipients killjoys or ingrates or both, but you can’t say they’re wrong.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 1, 2023
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
The master, who first the young brood had admitted, They stung like ingrates, and left him unpitied.
From The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 by William Ernst Browning
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