How To Use Ungrateful In A Sentence

How could I be so ungrateful when everything they had done had been in my own best interests?
Then the Emir Salamah and his wife and household and all the tribesmen donned garbs black-hued and ashes whereupon to sit they strewed, and ungrateful to them was the taste of food and drink, meat and wine; nor ceased they to beweep their loss, nor could they comprehend what had befallen their son and what of ill-lot had descended upon him from Heaven. Arabian nights. English
Either way, Al Jaber is the ungrateful recipient after clattering into the back of Joaquin.
Do you realize what this means for me, you ungrateful wretch?
If “instances of my ungrateful behaviour had been particularized, I would have answered to them.” George Washington’s First War

My hits did go up to about 200 since yesterday so why am I being an ungrateful wretch?
The precious little darlings soon become ungrateful little brats when they discover that Santa was on a budget and couldn't afford the most expensive toy in the universe.
Not only did this make him appear ungrateful, it also made him appear like a 4th grader who can't follow directions.
And so i adventitial to the neuroanatomical of orizaba a solace with me ungratefully i go so that i can skidpan a needless of the fun. Rational Review
These ungrateful wretches are apparently arguing that very few of them actually live beyond that age!
In the Quran, the opposite of being grateful is defined by the term disbelief, which is synonymous to being ungrateful. WN.com - Financial News
It seems like Nancy was very ungrateful and felt entitled.
When he returns safely to his homeland you will not find me ungrateful.
Now who is that so base and ungrateful as to rise from a table where such delicious victuals are served and "backbite" the neighbor who prepares it? " Eagle Clippings " by Jack Thorne, Newspaper Correspondent and Story Teller, A Collection of His Writings to Various Newspapers
Instead, we get reasoned debates on how to force the world to love us or assurances that the ungrateful wretches should love us for their own good.
The kind teacher was wrapping up this evil-tempered and ungrateful mog in a cashmere cardigan when he bit her. Times, Sunday Times
Technocrats and policy experts refined their planning grids while the real world, ungrateful in its messiness, declined to perform as the charts and the binders said it should.
Zephaniah is advanced, sooner than he expected, to this place of trust and power, and Shemaiah would have him think that Providence had preferred him that he might persecute God's prophets, that he had come to this government for such a time as this, and that he was unjust and ungrateful if he did not thus improve his power, or, rather, abuse it. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
And when we went to give presents to the old people at the Old Folks Home they were ungrateful. SAMSON SUPERSLUG
The hostility may seem both inaccurate and ungrateful.
At the risk of sounding ungrateful, I must refuse your offer.
Except that this time we know he's not an ungrateful wretch; he's just a little happier than when we met him, and so are we.
Philipa Beng MSc is part of the tragically abandoned aspirant class - I sense that she would not enjoy the company of the single mums within my circle who are uncultured, ungrateful, grasping, rude and totally cynical about their motherhood status. A Fire Raging in Islington
With much of the world under brutal dictatorships, corrupt oligarchies or anarchy, we seem ungrateful. Times, Sunday Times
Still cooling his anger from earlier that morning, thoughts of ungratefulness and indecency swirled in his mind.
Although he supports his mother financially, he presents him as stingy and ungrateful, single-mindedly devoted to his own success.
The kind teacher was wrapping up this evil-tempered and ungrateful mog in a cashmere cardigan when he bit her. Times, Sunday Times
Curse you,you ungrateful creature!"he cried in anger.
I am ungrateful to call you a stranger.
The duties of this "hard-worked" functionary consist of the checking of the Parliamentary voters list of his ward, once every two years, and of acting as chief canvasser and election agent for the Ministerial candidate, who, however, is usually returned unopposed; and for these onerous duties he is rewarded by an ungrateful Government with the "beggarly" salary of �0 a year. Chapter XXIV
Curse you,you ungrateful creature!"he cried in anger.
The gentle and intelligent reader will remember (though that miserable worm, the vapid and irreflective reader, will have forgotten) that at the beginning of the term the fags of Kay's had endeavoured to show their approval of Fenn and their disapproval of Kennedy by applying to the former for leave when they wished to go to the town; and that Fenn had received them in the most ungrateful manner with blows instead of exeats. The Head of Kay's
To do Sir Piercie justice, it was an idea which never entered into his head; and he would probably have dealt the most scientific imbroccata, stoccata, or punto reverso, which the school of Vincent Saviola had taught him, to any man who had dared to suggest to him such selfish and ungrateful meanness. The Monastery
Me, the heir of their founder — me, whom their foundation binds them to pray for — me — ungrateful villains as they are! — they suffer to die like the houseless dog on yonder common, unshriven and unhouseled! — Ivanhoe
But asylum seekers have been so demonized in Britain that all blame has gravitated to the detainees, who have been lumped together as ungrateful arsonists.
Now, after working her fingers to the bone on the EU's behalf, those ungrateful swine in Brussels have decided to punish her yet further by posting her to Paris for the next two years.
Calling the genre extreme is like calling patricide ungrateful.
I don't wish to seem ungrateful, but it's not quite what I expected.
Vengeance ought to ripen slowly in the strong heat of intense wrath, till of itself it falls -- hastily snatched before its time it is like unmellowed fruit, sour and ungrateful to the palate. Vendetta: a story of one forgotten
You are really an ungrateful wretch to complain instead of thanking him.
That same broad mass of good people tends to be an ungrateful and short-memoried bunch and it only takes one idiotic act to undo all the good will built up by many brave and sensible acts by individual policemen. Policeman killed - NO STORY. Woman slapped - BIG STORY. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his DOG. Think Progress » VIDEO: Byrd Takes Frist To School
Yet to some of us — petty souls, perhaps, and envious — that loud indiscriminating praise of “Robbie Burns” (for so they style you in their Change-house familiarity) has long been ungrateful; and, among the treasures of your songs, we venture to select and even to reject. Letters to Dead Authors
I refuse to believe that Kristen is ungrateful or regrets doing Twilight. Twilight Lexicon » Kristen Stewart in Nylon Magazine
I won't give her any more if she's ungrateful.
She called her children lazy and ungrateful
Serving cheap, low-quality food and beverages to ungrateful men and women wearing polyester is an abomination.
Snatching a hold of his shirt, black material captured in her relentless grip, she clung to him, her knuckles white in desperation as she declared, ‘I'm in love with you, you ungrateful wretch!’
The New York hackmen, for instance, are very obliging and attentive; but if it would not seem ungrateful, I would hazard the statement that their attentions are unremitting to the degree of being almost embarrassing, and proffered to the verge of obtrusiveness. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863
In reality, we are so incensed at the ungrateful treatment we have received and the graceless way in which it has been done that we have withdrawn our support.
Albert V) say if he finds a writer confounding _Catherine_ and _Thomas_ Macaulay as "the celebrated author of the great Whig History of England" -- a confusion hardly worse than that of the two Eachards -- for Catherine, though now forgotten by an ungrateful public, made quite as much noise in her day as Thomas does in ours. Famous Reviews
Chaplin had not taken US citizenship and was seen in America as ungrateful for the prosperity that his successful career in the US had bestowed upon him.
'Go after her! the ungrateful, disobedient, good-for-nothing hussey! Gladys, the Reaper
I can't believe we have such ungrateful whiners in this place that have the hide and gall to call themselves Aussies.
And what's wrong with the CD player we just bought you, you ungrateful wretch, it's a perfectly good make and it's probably made in the same factory as Sony anyway!
But the worthy lady pronounced colporteur as coalporter, and so on hearing from a friend that "the Coalporters were on strike," Mrs.R. could not help exclaiming, "Dear! how ungrateful of them, when they were being 'so much appreciated by all!' Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, February 27, 1892
The poor old BBC, doing its best to provide a useful service to those ungrateful viewers!
You know, it may sound ungrateful, but I think it came too late.
The story centers around a single mother's struggles and sacrifices to raise an ungrateful daughter who is ashamed of her mother's humble status.
Maybe you will rethink your ungratefulness in death.
But during the good times man generally is ungrateful to God.
Worn out by looking after this miserable and ungrateful old man, she tentatively takes to drawing as an outlet for her depression.
My dad occasionally used to make kedgeree as a Sunday treat – and, fussy, ungrateful child that I was, I'd go through it with a fine-pronged fork and pick out all traces of fish before wolfing down the buttery, delicately spiced rice. Felicity Cloake's comfort food
The widespread groan is that Liberals and the ANGRY LEFT want to give your money to fat lazy people and their ungrateful children. Duh pookie
So I may say, that the excess of your fatherly affection drives me into such a strait, that I shall be forced to live and die ungrateful; unless that crime be redressed by the sentence of the Stoics, who say that there are three parts in a benefit, the one of the giver, the other of the receiver, the third of the remunerator; and that the receiver rewards the giver when he freely receives the benefit and always remembers it; as, on the contrary, that man is most ungrateful who despises and forgets a benefit. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
I will not perform the ungrateful task of comparing cases of failure
They accuse her of being ungrateful when she complains about shouldering all the family burdens while I 'm traveling abroad. The Better Half by Far: In Defense of Amy
I got through the first day of the month, then, not too grumpy, or ungrateful, or ill-tempered.
I am appalled at her ungratefulness and disregard for other people who have the disease.
I won't give her any more if she's ungrateful.
When he returns safely to his homeland you will not find me ungrateful.
Yet already they were ungrateful recalcitrant children, escaping from him in all directions, capable of forming new friendships and attachments.
It was for your sake I came; and it will be wickedly ungrateful if you refuse.
And one of them is how fundamentally ungrateful we can be.
I reckoned that after the recent spot of bother with his ungrateful workforce, he might appreciate someone of my stature gracing the fairways.
The envious and ungrateful do not really want to know the truth, since it would disturb their hatreds.
IV. iii.188 (361,1) Let it no more bring out ingrateful man!] [W: out to ungrateful] It is plain that _bring out_ is _bring forth_, with which the following lines correspond so plainly, that the commentator might be suspected of writing his note without reading the whole passage. Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
It then occurred to him that the sight of this ragged crone, and the chronicle of her woes, might be an excellent medicine for his "froward," ungrateful wife, and teach her to know when she was well off; and after speaking in confidence with the old woman, he bade him who recounts the adventure escort her into the lady's presence. A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)
If you let it slip from your hands you will deserve to be branded as ungrateful cowards and undutiful sons.
And so i adventitial to the neuroanatomical of orizaba a solace with me ungratefully i go so that i can skidpan a needless of the fun. Rational Review
At the risk of sounding ungrateful, I must refuse your offer.
‘Come on, you ungrateful wretch,’ she said, gritting her teeth and trying to continue to feel sympathetic for him.
‘My, aren't you the ungrateful wretch,’ he snapped.
On this occasion it is to Henry the parliamentarian that we are bidding adieu, as he is dislodged from his Central Fife fiefdom by an ungrateful Labour movement.
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Some of them can be very demanding and ungrateful, even obstreperous and fractious.
'But - Eric likes to sleep out,' he said hastily, and then stopped, knowing he sounded ungrateful. THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
I wish to ask your pardon for my silly speeches at the table, and for all my unamiability, and to assure you I have not forgotten your great services to me, and I am not ungrateful. The Rose of Old St. Louis
Page 184 we revilingly say, with some of their ungrateful descendants, that the good sense and love of liberty which had so lately driven them from their fatherland, to find an asylum here from the galling yoke of British oppression, had been so entirely absorbed in the passion for gain, as to cause them to be deaf to the claims of justice and humanity in behalf of the African! Lectures on the Philosophy and Practice of Slavery, as Exhibited in the Institution of Domestic Slavery in the United States: with the Duties of Masters to Slaves.
I don't want to sound ungrateful, but I thought I was not ready because I needed more experience and exposure to first-class cricket.
If on any occasion the other person turns against him, he considers him ungrateful.
If the trouble given by the revisal of my publication has robbed Mr Lofft of one pleasure, it will cast a gloom over that train of thinking in my mind; but I shall never be ungrateful. Letter 60
He proved a selfish, egocentric, ungrateful, and treacherous recipient of Noble's many kindnesses.
These selfish ungrateful wretches not only had the audacity to return Howard but compounded their sin by giving him a seemingly compliant Senate.
This early experience bred a deeply pessimistic outlook on life; he shared completely the view of Machiavelli - whom he had read - that men are ungrateful, fickle, liars and deceivers.
I felt a pang of jealousy suddenly; it caught me off guard and made me feel like an ungrateful wretch.
It really is outrageous - people are so ungrateful!
This isn't just about the above low-life, ungrateful repugnant creatures who participated in this display of idiocy.
And the men were so goddamned ungrateful for all the work their wives did!
Oh, it was so ungrateful of her to turn her back on him now that the years had passed. WEB OF DREAMS
And the men were so goddamned ungrateful for all the work their wives did!
Ungrateful Lady Mary Wortley Montagu called her quondam lover, The Secret of a Happy Home (1896)
Under the deep shade of some tall trees, sheltered from the noonday sun, we lay down to rest ourselves and enjoy a most patriarchal dinner, -- some dry biscuits, a few bunches of grapes, and a little weak wine, savoring more of the borachio-skin than the vine-juice, were all we boasted; yet they were not ungrateful at such a time and place. Charles O'Malley — Volume 1
To do Sir Piercie justice, it was an idea which never entered into his head; and he would probably have dealt the most scientific _imbroccata, stoccata_, or _punto reverso_, which the school of Vincent Saviola had taught him, to any man who had dared to suggest to him such selfish and ungrateful meanness. The Monastery
Their love for us keeps them motivated to carry on even when we are undeserving, ungrateful, snot-nosed brats.
It's a little ungrateful for Mr. Edwards to now upbraid the man who did so much to make the Senator's own fortune and political career possible.
I kept everything; it struck me as ungrateful to sell them at the time.
I looked at him, shocked and angry at his ungrateful outburst, then doubled my fist.
S: And (as for) those who disbelieve, for them is the fire of hell; it shall not be finished with them entirely so that they should die, nor shall the chastisement thereof be lightened to them: even thus do We retribute every ungrateful one. Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side
Mildred Pierce slaves on behalf of her child, and the ungrateful kid ends up seducing her husband!
How better to escape an unappreciative board and ungrateful debt?
As I said, some people don't know what they got till its gone and I intend to remove any ungrateful and uncomplimentary subscribers from my address book unless I am duly praised and thanked.
I don't mean to sound ungrateful, but my downstairs neighbor has been shoveling snow in front of our house for the past two and a half hours.
She fell out with the ungrateful bastards of that particular branch of my mother's extended family, and we didn't visit that bunch this year.
It speaks of his own desires, his restlessness, his ungratefulness.
After reading your comment, I went back to determine who this ungrateful fiend is who was so anxious to renounce his or her citizenship and I was also unable to find any such post. Page 2
And ah foolifh and ungrateful creatures, that form excufes to keep them off from his fervice, and that prefer their fwine, their fordid gains and traffic, to him 1 How worthy is he of our Faith and love, adoration and obedience! The practical expositor, or, An exposition of the New Testament, in the form of a paraphrase : with occasional notes... and serious recollections
I won't give her any more if she's ungrateful.
The promise of endless variety savours of sameness, and we blame ourselves for being spoilt or ignorant, unimaginative, ungrateful and unfulfilled.
We are not ungrateful to friends, but feel that our toil has made our friends able to contribute the stinty pittance which we have received at their hands. Defense of the Negro Race----Charges Answered. Speech of Hon. George H. White, of North Carolina, in the House of Representatives, January 29, 1901
Will you, Wallace, again condescend to save a country that has treated you so ungratefully? The Scottish Chiefs
I still don't think I have done anything outstanding yet, although I know that may sound bad or ungrateful because of the junior titles I have taken.
Ingratitude is a kind of weakness; clever men are not ungrateful.
Whence great discontent among certain of these, who had contributed to make him Abbot: reproaches, open and secret, of his being 'ungrateful, hard-tempered, unsocial, a Norfolk _barrator_ and _paltenerius_.' Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.
To suggest that we, rather like some ungrateful children, don't want the new leisure centre in South Norwood is to deliberately mislead and distort our argument.
He also accused the government of being ungrateful.
Though he may be humble, he's certainly not ungrateful.
As soon as we are persuaded that we are lucky to be alive, the thought of complaining about quality of life becomes churlish, ungrateful.
To do Sir Piercie justice, it was an idea which never entered into his head; and he would probably have dealt the most scientific imbroccata, stoccata, or punto reverso, which the school of Vincent Saviola had taught him, to any man who had dared to suggest to him such selfish and ungrateful meanness. The Monastery
What he didn't expect was ungratefulness from a rude little sixteen year old.
It is perhaps to be regretted that this work, which contains many fine details, should have been played for the first time in the Salle de Redoute, so "redoutable" and ungrateful a room for the piano in general; in a less vast space, such as the salle of the Musik - Verein, the virtuoso and the work would assuredly have been heard more to advantage, and if I did not fear to appear indiscreet I should ask Mr. de Hardegg to play it a second time, in a concert room of moderate size. Letters
Mary Eleanor Bowes was vilified during the divorce cases as an outrageous libertine, an ungrateful wife and a hard-hearted mother. Wedlock by Wendy Moore: Questions
Are the world's leading recording companies a bunch of spoiled, ungrateful, money-grabbing so-and-sos or what?
I forgive you, you ungrateful wretch, for you are my brother's son.
The promise of endless variety savours of sameness, and we blame ourselves for being spoilt or ignorant, unimaginative, ungrateful and unfulfilled.
If we're running ourselves ragged catering for our children's every emotional and physical need, you'd think the ungrateful little bleeders would be living in clover.
For indeede after the Philosophers had picked out of the sweete misteries of Poetrie, the right discerning true points of knowledge: they forthwith putting it in methode, and making a Schoole Art of that which the Poets did onely teach by a divine delightfulnes, beginning to spurne at their guides, like ungratefull Prentices, were not content to set up shop for themselves, but sought by all meanes to discredit their maisters, which by the force of delight being barred them, the lesse they could overthrow them, the more they hated them. Defence of Poesie

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