ungratefulun‧grate‧ful /ʌnˈɡreɪtfəl/ adjective - I am not prepared to go to jail for that ungrateful woman!
- I don't mean to sound ungrateful, but I really don't need any help.
- Our children are so ungrateful - they don't realize how much we do for them.
- All he was attempting to do was to prevent the river from flooding these ungrateful people's houses.
- Hanson could make an upstart drummer feel ungrateful if he tried to walk away from a kindness.
- He wondered if they had come to take him away to a Home for ungrateful and unwanted children.
- Mildred Pierce slaves on behalf of her child, and the ungrateful kid ends up seducing her husband!
- The ungrateful chief demanded his four horses back and returned the injured pony to Small Star.
- Unbelief, on the other hand, has a short and ungrateful memory.
- When he returns safely to his homeland you will not find me ungrateful.
- When she grows up, she should have such ungrateful children!
when someone does not thank you► ungrateful someone who is ungrateful does not thank you when you do something for them, and this makes you annoyed or upset: · Our children are so ungrateful - they don't realize how much we do for them.· I am not prepared to go to jail for that ungrateful woman!
► ingratitude a lack of any feeling of being grateful when someone has given you something or does something for you: · Such ingratitude! After all I've done for him, he treats me like dirt.· They were shocked by her ingratitude -- she didn't seem to appreciate the trouble they had gone to.
► take somebody for granted to expect someone to help you or do things for you because they always have done, and never thank them or show them that you are grateful: · Like many married couples, we had started to take each other for granted.· Kids usually take their mother for granted.
noungratitude ≠ ingratitudeingrateadjectivegrateful ≠ ungratefuladverbgratefully