thankless

How To Use thankless In A Sentence

• He asked me bluntly, ‘Why would you want to leave private life and take on such a difficult, dangerous and probably thankless job?’
• European Powers is exhausted on Poland, and that neither pity nor shame will induce them to break a thankless neutrality, here; but in the face of all barely probable contingencies, I doubt no more of the ultimate result, than I doubt of the ultimate performance of the justice of God. Border and Bastille
• People thank you for a thankless job that is at times very unpleasant, to say the least.
• This is a thankless task. Times, Sunday Times
• Working in software is often one of the most thankless tasks (.. and I don't work in games). My Latest Crazy Idea: Sexy Developerland
• The jobs, and many others that could be called thankless, fall to inmates at the Wicomico County Detention Center. Undefined
• They are a serious labour of love to make, but worth every thankless hardship a poor commis chef must endure. Times, Sunday Times
• What's the point of talking about paid work giving a parent an ‘opportunity for self-development’ if that work is the anonymous, thankless job of a cleaner or catering assistant?
• Beware of a presumptuous and thankless person who tends to take advantage of your good nature.
• Hopefully, the best parts of this game will be imitated and improved upon by future games in the genre, adding real strategy back into a group of games now best known as a thankless grind for bigger and bigger numbers. Verbal Spew