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单词 unthankful
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Definition of unthankful in English:

unthankful

adjectiveʌnˈθaŋkf(ə)lʌnˈθaŋkfʊlˌənˈθæŋkfəl
  • Not feeling or showing pleasure, relief, or gratitude.

    no company ever went from them unthankful
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I wondered how he survived, teaching unthankful boys all day long.
    • I was feeling like that kind of guy appearing in several different mythologies, that kind of guy having the unthankful task to bring over the really, really bad news.
    • Do you know how hard and unthankful a task it is to write these fake few stories for newspaper movie props?
    • The other one, playing Charles VII, had to deal with one of the most unsympathetic, unthankful roles in opera: neither good nor evil but merely pathetic.
    • My mother droned on about how unthankful I was for not appreciating her good will towards me.
    • I still didn't understand why Toni could be so unthankful that his dad stayed to take care of him.
    • If that is so, I must take care, on the one hand, never to despise, or be unthankful for, these earthly blessings, and on the other, never to mistake them for the something else of which they are only a kind of copy, echo, or mirage.
    • He completely ignored his unthankful brother, leaning in towards Virginia, ‘Does this meet your expectations, sister?’
    Synonyms
    unappreciative, thankless, ungracious

Derivatives

  • unthankfully

  • adverb
    • I say unthankfully because I seemed to encounter many more bugs in this control mode.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • They do this job tirelessly, for what many would consider inferior pay, sometimes unthankfully, and often anonymously.
      • Thankfully, no one was hurt, and unthankfully, the several men got away, but this Apple Store is now nothing but a crime scene.
      • My vote goes to the Government which will make people make some contribution for the handouts they unthankfully receive.
      • Its larger than life premise, prefixed with a true story tips its hat to every humanitarian unthankfully slogging for long hours to change the status quo.
  • unthankfulness

  • noun
    • I'm persuaded that unthankfulness plays a greater role in our lives than it is comfortable to admit.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Some show this unthankfulness in another way, for they always dwell most on what they have not got.
      • Like signposts along a highway warning of change, unthankfulness is a sure sign of spiritual decay.
      • Indeed, it is their unthankfulness for genuine favours that renders them so guilty.
      • In that sense, much of media keeps stoking the hot coals of unthankfulness - dismissing what we already have as woefully insufficient.
 
 

Definition of unthankful in US English:

unthankful

adjectiveˌənˈθæŋkfəlˌənˈTHaNGkfəl
  • Not feeling or showing pleasure, relief, or gratitude.

    no company ever went from them unthankful
    Example sentencesExamples
    • If that is so, I must take care, on the one hand, never to despise, or be unthankful for, these earthly blessings, and on the other, never to mistake them for the something else of which they are only a kind of copy, echo, or mirage.
    • My mother droned on about how unthankful I was for not appreciating her good will towards me.
    • Do you know how hard and unthankful a task it is to write these fake few stories for newspaper movie props?
    • I wondered how he survived, teaching unthankful boys all day long.
    • He completely ignored his unthankful brother, leaning in towards Virginia, ‘Does this meet your expectations, sister?’
    • The other one, playing Charles VII, had to deal with one of the most unsympathetic, unthankful roles in opera: neither good nor evil but merely pathetic.
    • I still didn't understand why Toni could be so unthankful that his dad stayed to take care of him.
    • I was feeling like that kind of guy appearing in several different mythologies, that kind of guy having the unthankful task to bring over the really, really bad news.
    Synonyms
    unappreciative, thankless, ungracious
 
 
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