What's the difference between gratitude and ingratitude?
Gratitude
Definition:
(a.) The state of being grateful; warm and friendly feeling toward a benefactor; kindness awakened by a favor received; thankfulness.
Example Sentences:
(1) The voters don’t do gratitude, self-pitying politicians are wont to moan.
(2) With gratitude and rejoice, we commemorate the return to International arena.
(3) Murakami expressed his gratitude to the couple for "for wanting to take the time to even try to find him", David Baxter said.
(4) But Blair's address - "history will forgive us" - was a dubious exercise in group therapy: the cheers smacked of pathetic gratitude, as he piously pardoned the legislators, as well as himself, for the catastrophe of Iraq.
(5) "Perspective and gratitude have a lot to do with it: I don't make that many films.
(6) The gratitude I feel to Velázquez for this greatest of paintings is untold; he gave me the consolation I most needed in my life.
(7) Three mechanisms of reciprocity seem to be able to generate positive feelings toward the caregiving experience: gratitude from those cared for, balanced interaction, and financial compensations.
(8) Former president Joyce Banda published a blistering press release in 2013 saying the singer “wants Malawi to be forever chained to the obligation of gratitude” for adopting children from the country, and excoriating her for expecting the government to roll out “a red carpet and blast the 21-gun salute” in honour of her visits.
(9) The dialogue is perfect: the broker waxes inanely on ("A lovely space"), and the prospective buyers ooze gratitude at being granted a viewing.
(10) I am grateful that my body will split in half in late summer, and I will probably live through it, being a resident of the affluent west, but the gratitude is ambivalent.
(11) On Thursday, Lon Snowden spoke of his "extreme gratitude that my son is safe and secure and he's free", words that were run repeatedly during the morning on Russian news channels.
(12) The anger may well have been justified but Mourinho owes the referee a debt of gratitude for allowing Chelsea's equaliser on 33 minutes.
(13) Asthma sufferers who rely on an inhaler to manage their condition owe a debt of gratitude to a teenage American girl.
(14) There are complaints, too, from soldiers in the field that live information is not always transferred to them fast enough, but they, too, express gratitude for snippets passed on about potential Taliban attacks.
(15) Expressing his gratitude to all foreign countries for the aid, Vucic said Serbia now needed "food, baby food, diapers, all kind of clothes, medicaments, bottled water, disinfection and hygienic resources".
(16) A few months on, in the offices of the book's publisher, overlooking the Thames, Georgia Gould still carries that mix of grief and gratitude with her.
(17) Beneath this, there is the obnoxious notion that people owe their employer loyalty, gratitude and even love; tug your forelock and go "the extra mile" for an employer who may show you no loyalty and dump you as soon as you become old, pregnant or sick.
(18) Every member of staff owes him a debt of gratitude, and I am sure I speak for us all in wishing him well for the future.'
(19) I will do it with a heart filled with gratitude, with a deep and dividing love for our country, and with nothing but optimism and confidence for the days ahead.
(20) "In my opinion we owe Tayyip Erdoğan a debt of gratitude," she added.
Ingratitude
Definition:
(n.) Want of gratitude; insensibility to, forgetfulness of, or ill return for, kindness or favors received; unthankfulness; ungratefulness.
Example Sentences:
(1) Osborne expressed the same sort of sentiments on Thursday, although it appears he used a private breakfast with 30 business leaders to deliver a bit of a pep talk rather than a Heath-style tirade at business ingratitude.
(2) I’d get some satisfaction from mitigating the ingratitude of people who don’t give a damn about keeping the farm clean for each other and the wildlife.
(3) That is not churlishness or ingratitude, but a mark of the country’s real progress.
(4) Criticising something that has been given to you is seen as evidence of ingratitude – and ingratitude is culturally looked down upon.
(5) Having slept on this ingratitude for her efforts on Thursday night, Peaches has now offered a quarter-arsed apology for having been a quarter-wit.
(6) (Plath Snr contended that the descriptions of real people in the novel represented "the basest ingratitude" towards the people caricatured in the book, herself included).
(7) In a memorandum, Lord Milner, the colonial secretary, warned that many under attack had served in the war, done their bit and "bitterly resented the ingratitude".
(8) Supporters are disenchanted – some used Kroenke as a proxy for Wenger and one banner proclaimed “Time for change, Arsenal FC not Arsène FC” – and the club’s establishment feel their arguments betray an ingratitude.
(9) The patient was the loser, the lawyer the winner, and the physician often devastated by the patient's ingratitude.
(10) Netanyahu invariably repaid Obama’s generosity with ingratitude and abuse.
(11) Like King Lear, the president feels the fangs of ingratitude, the marble-hearted fiend, more keenly than anything else.