What's the difference between ingratitude and ungratefulness?

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.

Ungratefulness


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