ingratitude

Example Sentences

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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

I’m also wondering if those five negative traits — selfishness, frugality, ingratitude, anger, depression — are really just one condition with five symptoms.

From Washington Post • Mar. 16, 2022

To feel hammered by guilt is in a way an act of ingratitude, and I think this is important.

From Salon • May 1, 2021

To not help him, they believed, would be a greater moral offense and act of ingratitude than even his verbal attacks of hostility and hatred.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady