Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an ungrateful manner.
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- adverb In an
ungrateful manner, done in a way lackinggratitude .
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- adverb in an ungrateful manner
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Examples
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This gave rather a pretty color; but still Mrs. Peterkin ungratefully said it tasted of anything but coffee.
The Peterkin Papers Lucretia Peabody 1886
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A negro-man whom I permitted to live here for a while did very ungratefully, that is to say, very thoughtlessly — destroy the window-shutters, and other loose work, for fire-wood, I having forgotten to supply him with that needful article, and he, poor man, being too bashful to acquaint me with his wants.
Sheppard Lee 1836
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What could account for good people behaving so ungratefully?
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Absence of Gratitude is the Source of Clerical Burnout Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2011
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Modern secularism may be accused of ungratefully dismissing its Christian legacy, but that does not mean it is doomed to regress to the worst of the pagan past.
Matt J. Rossano: The Christian Revolution Matt J. Rossano 2011
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Modern secularism may be accused of ungratefully dismissing its Christian legacy, but that does not mean it is doomed to regress to the worst of the pagan past.
Matt J. Rossano: The Christian Revolution Matt J. Rossano 2011
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What could account for good people behaving so ungratefully?
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Absence of Gratitude is the Source of Clerical Burnout Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2011
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I want to dance and dance and never go back to Maiden Lane, I thought ungratefully.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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Which would be the most unkind or imperious man, he who refus'd without giving any reasons, and consequently leaves the applicant to accuse his covetousness or contempt of destress; or, he who refuses by an exposition of his affairs sufficient for his justification, and sufficient to prove that he had by the party's there mention'd, been ungenerously and ungratefully used?
Letter 228 2009
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Mr. Lofft would have said (perhaps publickly) that I had not only offended in relation to the new Vollm but had most ungratefully set him aside in the original publication.
Letter 70 2009
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What could account for good people behaving so ungratefully?
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Absence of Gratitude is the Source of Clerical Burnout Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2011
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