thankless

Example Sentences

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Being an executor is often a lonely, time-consuming and thankless task.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 18, 2025

Neither of ABT’s two hardworking casts, with leading couples framed by male and female ensembles, made their dramatically opaque and intermittently acrobatic work look more than thankless.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 3, 2025

Speaking after the resignation of Angela Rayner, the former Derby South MP said: "It's a lot of time, it's a lot of work, it's a lot of responsibility, and it's thankless."

From BBC • Sep. 10, 2025

The job of scout team quarterback can feel thankless at times, Heinicke said, because even his best impersonation of an opposing quarterback will never be perfect.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2024

Yes, the presidency was a thankless job, “a most unpleasant seat, full of thorns, briars, thistles, murmuring, fault-finding, calumny, obloquy.”

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis