ingratitude
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Older Americans can read that as apathy or ingratitude.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
Calculated self-awareness is as necessary to the pop star formula as musical prowess; even more so in the digital age, where even a whiff of ingratitude is grounds for cancellation.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2025
Standing up for yourself is portrayed as whining or ingratitude, and rejecting convention comes at a cost.
From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2025
Seizing hold of the character’s emotional savagery, Jackson let us see that it was born not just from royal entitlement but also from filial selfishness and ingratitude.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2023
Father Nicanor Reyna—whom Don Apolinar Moscote had brought from the swamp to officiate at the wedding— was an old man hardened by the ingratitude of his ministry.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Vocabulary lists containing ingratitude
Novel Study: Julius Caesar, Act 3
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