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unˈgratefully, adv.
[un-1 11 and 5 b.]
1. Harshly, unpleasantly, disagreeably.
1581Sidney Apol. Poetrie (Arb.) 42 Telling of a man, whose beloued Lambe was vngratefullie taken from his bosome. 1693Dryden Juvenal (1697) p. lxxxi, It tickles aukwardly with a kind of pain;..we are pleas'd ungratefully, and, if I may say so, against our liking. 1698Hearne Duct. Hist. (1714) I. 385 Cæsar..returned to Rome and triumphed, though a little ungratefully to some of Pompey's friends. 1712Arbuthnot John Bull ii. v, The musick..sounded more ungratefully in her ears than the noise of a screech-owl.
†2. Without due return or gratitude. Obs.—1
1593Nashe Christ's T. P 1 b, Vngratefully hath God giuen thee long peace and plenty, since..thy peace and plentie hath begotte more sinnes then warre euer hearde of.
3. With lack of gratitude.
a1625Fletcher Hum. Lieutenant iii. vi, I am not greedy of your lives and fortunes, Nor do I gape ungratefully to swallow ye. 1692Washington tr. Milton's Def. Pop. M.'s Wks. 1738 I. 537 Yet these very men did a great part of the People ungratefully desert in the midst of their undertaking. 1737in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. I. 493 A Person in whom your Majesty has placed a Trust and who has so Ungratefully abused that Trust. 1798Pennant Hindoostan II. 47 He continued in employ till 1754, when he was ungratefully superseded. 1856N. Brit. Rev. XXVI. 195 Having been coldly and (as he thought) ungratefully treated by the Whig leaders. |