Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An ungrateful person.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Unthankful; ungrateful.
- noun An ungrateful person; one who rewards favors with enmity or treachery.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An ungrateful person.
- adjective Obs. or Poetic Ingrateful.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Ungrateful . - adjective obsolete
Unpleasant ,unfriendly - noun An
ungrateful person .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who shows no gratitude
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Maybe the reason she sounds like such an ingrate is because she didn’t have to work that hard to get the part of Bella.
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"If you mean I am an ingrate, that is an unpleasant word, Aunt Mary."
The Dude Wrangler Caroline Lockhart 1916
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Now, pure, innocent, SK, who would never be described as a ingrate (نذاة) or a liar, has made it her duty to escalate the issue.
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Gervais also read out a list of once-troubled actor Robert Downey, Jr.'s drug problems and rehab stints, made fun of 'The Tourist,' teased Charlie Sheen, called out Mel Gibson for anti-semitism and called Steve Carrell -- who took on Gervais' role in the American version of Gervais' British show, 'The Office' -- an "ingrate" for deciding to leave the show.
Golden Globes President Lashes Out At Ricky Gervais Jordan Zakarin 2011
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Gervais also read out a list of once-troubled actor Robert Downey, Jr.'s drug problems and rehab stints, made fun of 'The Tourist,' teased Charlie Sheen, called out Mel Gibson for anti-semitism and called Steve Carrell -- who took on Gervais' role in the American version of Gervais' British show, 'The Office' -- an "ingrate" for deciding to leave the show.
Golden Globes President Lashes Out At Ricky Gervais Jordan Zakarin 2011
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Gervais also read out a list of once-troubled actor Robert Downey, Jr.'s drug problems and rehab stints, made fun of 'The Tourist,' teased Charlie Sheen, called out Mel Gibson for anti-semitism and called Steve Carrell -- who took on Gervais' role in the American version of Gervais' British show, 'The Office' -- an "ingrate" for deciding to leave the show.
Ricky Gervais: Golden Globes Host 'Doesn't Care' If Anyone Was Offended By Jokes Jordan Zakarin 2011
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Gervais also read out a list of once-troubled actor Robert Downey, Jr.'s drug problems and rehab stints, made fun of 'The Tourist,' teased Charlie Sheen, called out Mel Gibson for anti-semitism and called Steve Carrell -- who took on Gervais' role in the American version of Gervais' British show, 'The Office' -- an "ingrate" for deciding to leave the show.
Golden Globes President Lashes Out At Ricky Gervais Jordan Zakarin 2011
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Gervais also read out a list of once-troubled actor Robert Downey, Jr.'s drug problems and rehab stints, made fun of 'The Tourist,' teased Charlie Sheen, called out Mel Gibson for anti-semitism and called Steve Carrell -- who took on Gervais' role in the American version of Gervais' British show, 'The Office' -- an "ingrate" for deciding to leave the show.
Golden Globes President Lashes Out At Ricky Gervais Jordan Zakarin 2011
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Which sort of sounds to me like a cross between "ingrate" and "getta loada this".
Another example of how not to get in to graduate school. Angry Professor 2008
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When the "ingrate" is turned out of Heaven they do not send him to Hell, they send him to Earth and give him imagination and a heart.
Over the Fireside with Silent Friends Richard King 1913
brtom commented on the word ingrate
... whose fault?
Whose but his own? ingrate, he had of mee
All he could have ...
Milton, Paradise Lost III
December 18, 2006