thankless

Example Sentences

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In “The Thankless Child,” Cinderella is named Paul; in “The Frog’s Princess,” a beautiful daughter’s gender pronouns are he/him.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 8, 2018

A Thankless Task I’ve bought gifts for my two nephews, now age 21 and 14, for years.

From New York Times • Aug. 19, 2010

Thankless indeed is the job that Fadden inherited.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thankless an’ ontrue,—go,—an’ look to me in the future to keep you out of the poorhouse and no more.

From Children of the Mist by Phillpotts, Eden

Thankless man, Never to practice thy teaching; or see thy star?

From Voices; Birth-Marks; The Man and the Elephant by Holt, Mathew Joseph