Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or character of being thankless; ingratitude.
- noun Synonyms See
grateful .
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- noun The property of being
thankless .
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Examples
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I began to weary of the small Yankee greed and griping and "thanklessness" which I experienced.
Memoirs Charles Godfrey Leland 1863
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Since then I have learned it is one of the greatest and most direct routes to happiness because one thing's for sure: dwelling in its opposite thanklessness certainly isn't going to make you happy, nor will it get you what you want.
Karen Talavera: The Transformative Heart-Opening Power of Gratitude Karen Talavera 2011
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Since then I have learned it is one of the greatest and most direct routes to happiness because one thing's for sure: dwelling in its opposite thanklessness certainly isn't going to make you happy, nor will it get you what you want.
Karen Talavera: The Transformative Heart-Opening Power of Gratitude Karen Talavera 2011
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Since then I have learned it is one of the greatest and most direct routes to happiness because one thing's for sure: dwelling in its opposite thanklessness certainly isn't going to make you happy, nor will it get you what you want.
Karen Talavera: The Transformative Heart-Opening Power of Gratitude Karen Talavera 2011
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Since then I have learned it is one of the greatest and most direct routes to happiness because one thing's for sure: dwelling in its opposite thanklessness certainly isn't going to make you happy, nor will it get you what you want.
Karen Talavera: The Transformative Heart-Opening Power of Gratitude Karen Talavera 2011
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If, on the other hand, you are not nice to her all year, then that lousy bunch of carnations is little more than a reminder of the putrid thanklessness of her lot.
Who Needs Valentine's Day? Not Me, My Jonny, or the Toledos 2009
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Do you not know that whilst the state does not concern itself with ordinary ingratitude or pass judicial sentence on it; whilst it overlooks the thanklessness of those who fail to make return for kindly treatment, it reserves its pains and penalties for the special case?
Memorabilia 2007
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The same figure would serve just as well to describe the thanklessness of Belief to the Disbelief which has purged and exalted it.
Voltaire 2007
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December 28th, 2005 at 1: 53 am tulip flowers rose delivery says: mythologies superimposes delimited? permissible thanklessness … Thanks!!!
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I had never been struck at so keenly, for my thanklessness to
Great Expectations 2007
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