ungrateful
/ʌnˈɡɹeɪtfəl/ adjective B2- Not grateful; not expressing gratitude. · Near-synonyms: unappreciative, unthankful
- Disagreeable, repellent, unpleasant.
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I’m a dreadfully wicked and ungrateful girl, and I deserve to be punished and cast out by respectable people forever.
“Truly I should be ungrateful if I failed to mourn for the man who gave me my lovely heart.
The greatest kindness will not bind the ungrateful.
As soon as they were well away, the Fox departed without taking any notice of the Woodcutter: whereon he called to him and reproached him, saying, “You ungrateful fellow, you owe your life to me, and yet you leave me without a word of thanks.” The Fox replied, “Indeed, I should have thanked you fervently if your deeds had been as good as your words, and if your hands had not been traitors to your speech.”
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