What's the difference between rewarded and thankless?

Rewarded


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Reward

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We want to be sure that the country that’s providing all the infrastructure and support to the business is the one that reaps the reward by being able to collect the tax,” he said.
  • (2) This "gender identity movement" has brought together such unlikely collaborators as surgeons, endocrinologists, psychologists, psychiatrists, gynecologists, and research specialists into a mutually rewarding arena.
  • (3) Learning ability was assessed using a radial arm maze task, in which the rats had to visit each of eight arms for a food reward.
  • (4) The hosts had resisted through the early stages, emulating their rugged first-half displays against Manchester United and Arsenal here this season, and even mustered a flurry of half-chances just before the interval to offer a reminder they might glean greater reward thereafter.
  • (5) "The company and its shareholders have been handsomely rewarded for that."
  • (6) It is worth noting though that the government is reaping scant reward in the polls even though the economy has expanded by more than 3% over the past year and – according to the IMF – will be the fastest growing of the G7 economies this year.
  • (7) Despite a few initial concerns about the technology and how it would fit into their daily routines, staff really see the benefit and find it rewarding to see the messages and be able to respond straight away.
  • (8) The Treasury said: "Britain has been at the forefront of global reforms to make banking more responsible, including big reductions in upfront cash bonuses and linking rewards to long-term success.
  • (9) The hypothesis that metabolic rate, as well as foraging and recruiting activities, depend on the motivational state of the foraging bee determined by the reward at the food source is discussed.
  • (10) But mention the words "eurozone crisis" to other Finns, and you could be rewarded with little more than a confused, albeit friendly, smile.
  • (11) Six other rats were rewarded only if their sequence of left and right responses in the current trial differed from each of the previous five trials.
  • (12) Cats were trained to press a lever for 0.5--1.0 ml of milk reward both in the presence and absence of ambient light.
  • (13) He is 100% committed in every training session and that is why I rewarded him with the chance to play.
  • (14) As a result existing job definitions and traditional forms of organization are being challenged and attempts made to restructure work so that it becomes meaningful and rewarding in the fullest sense, to the individual, to the enterprise, and to society.
  • (15) Since these tumors are often multiple and small, angiography is not very rewarding.
  • (16) The reason to be an atheist is not that it makes us feel better or gives us a more rewarding life.
  • (17) The collaborative approach focused on rewards of behavioral change and minimized attention to prevention of negative behaviors, while openly valuing input from the women who are potential health promoters in their own communities.
  • (18) Not only is there a great need, but it is a personally rewarding and satisfactory experience.
  • (19) The glutamatergic mechanisms of neostriatum and nucleus accumbens septi play a minor role in attenuation of tegmental self-stimulation with droperidol, fluphenazine, trifluoperazine and clozapine but these mechanisms seem to be responsible for the suppression of "reward" phenomenon with haloperidol, thioridazine and aminazine.
  • (20) Free money offers The Halifax's £100 cash is available to people who switch to its Reward current account.

Thankless


Definition:

  • (a.) Not acknowledging favors; not expressing thankfulness; unthankful; ungrateful.
  • (a.) Not obtaining or deserving thanks; unacceptable; as, a thankless task.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Winston Churchill, when he was offered the role of minister of the local government board in 1906, commented: "There is no place more laborious, more anxious, more thankless, more cloaked with petty and even squalid detail, more full of hopeless and insoluble difficulties."
  • (2) Villa have now gone a club-record 15 league games without a win, they remain eight points adrift of safety, and Rémi Garde could be forgiven for privately wishing that Arsène Wenger, his mentor, had talked him out of, and not into, this thankless job.
  • (3) Replying to a budget statement – even one that’s heavily briefed – is a thankless task at the best of times.
  • (4) I had worked thankless waitressing jobs since I was 16, and, coupled with a small inheritance from my late grandmother, I'd been able to put aside a small sum of money.
  • (5) "This policy has so many downsides – it violates natural law, it makes kids spoilt and thankless," she said.
  • (6) October 9, 2013 Sony Kapoor (@SonyKapoor) Dear #Yellen , welcome to a powerful, but thankless job!
  • (7) I recall, even now, his first Stratford appearance in the seemingly thankless role of Aragon in The Merchant of Venice (1960).
  • (8) President Barack Obama is set to name his current chief of staff, Jack Lew, to the most thankless job in American politics: treasury secretary.
  • (9) We talk about going into the empty bedrooms – the room whose mess we used to complain about – and about the days that were for years crammed with thankless domestic tasks and now have a kind of spaciousness about them.
  • (10) It's thankless in the sense that the complexity of this process is one that is very hard to get your arms around, and hence you never read in the newspaper, any media, anybody thanking governments for this kind of approach because it is complex.
  • (11) e360: You were quoted as having called the executive director's job thankless and you've also called it the most inspiring job in the world.
  • (12) Running Spurs was "a waste of my life" and "a thankless, hopeless task", he has since said.
  • (13) It would be hard to imagine a more thankless task at the present moment than defending the Right Honourable member for Sutton Coldfield, parliamentary secretary to the Treasury (as the chief whip is formally known).
  • (14) Always had thanklessness and carelessness with the child from living together adults, who playing handle and waste the toxic.
  • (15) Either way the task of climbing away from the foot of the table looks a thankless one.
  • (16) One of the most thankless jobs in the legal world must be championing public legal education (PLE).
  • (17) I took my savings from working two thankless jobs in food and fashion retail and went in search of adventure; I ended up at a liberal Girl Scouts camp in northern California, moulding the hearts and minds of girls aged six to 16.
  • (18) You’ve just got to go through that.” The lot of a young goalkeeper, particularly at a top club, can seem thankless.
  • (19) He then moved into the private sector, joining Goldman Sachs for five years; before taking on the thankless task as governor of the Bank of Italy, where he was credited with helping steer Italy's debt-ridden economy through the crisis without requiring financial assistance.... His time in the US, in particular, is said to have influenced him, driving him to act early rather than take the German wait-and-see attitude that has often prevailed in Europe.
  • (20) A tough and sometimes thankless job, but de Boer does it as well as anyone can.

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