(a.) Impressed with a sense of kindness received, and ready to acknowledge it; grateful.
Example Sentences:
(1) But the Franco-British spat sparked by Dave's rejection of Angela and Nicolas's cunning plan to save the euro has been given wings by news the US credit agencies may soon strip France of its triple-A rating and is coming along very nicely, thank you. "
(2) During the last 10 years 94% of patients have been normocalcaemic postoperatively, thanks mainly to the re-implantation of autologous parathyroid tissue, preserved by low-temperature storage.
(3) Just when Everton thought they might start 2014 by keeping Liverpool out of the Champions League positions, they came close to failing the wet Wednesday at Stoke test thanks to a goal from an Anfield loanee.
(4) Here is my email to Dr Hansen on 18 June: Dear Mr. Hansen, Thanks for calling.
(5) Collins later thanked the condemned man for what he said was the respect he showed toward the execution team and for the way he endured the ordeal.
(6) Not because we are “chippy, moronic gits” (thank you, Twitter), but because we do not see the social benefit of a two-tier education system that provides a small minority with vastly more opportunities than the rest.
(7) Neuroradiology, originally developed through invasive techniques arising out of cooperation between radiology and neurosurgery, has today become a specialty which, thanks to its new non-invasive methods, can provide much information about diseases of the nervous system.
(8) Roll-up man 3.50pm GMT Thank you to Tom Skinner for this educational and informative video .
(9) Thanks to the groundbreaking technology and heavy investment of a new breed of entertainment retailers offering access services, we are witnessing a revolution in the entertainment industry, benefitting consumers, creators and content owners alike.” ERA acts as a forum for the physical and digital retail sectors of music, and represents over 90% of the of the UK’s entertainment retail market.
(10) Thank you to Manchester United, not just the directors, coaching staff, medical staff, the players, the fans, all of you – you have been the most fantastic experience of my life, so thank you.
(11) All this has been going on while 150 remote communities in Western Australia face the possibility of closure, thanks to Tony Abbott’s “lifestyle choices” mentality.
(12) He encountered one couple en route to the MSPs’ meeting, who said “Glad you could visit, Jeremy,” and “Well done!” And outside a nearby cafe, a man cradling his baby daughter in the sunshine shouted out to him: “Thanks for bringing humanity back to politics.
(13) Thankfully both of them have now moved on – and their performances since leaving Stoke have shown it was 100% the right decision.
(14) 7.46am BST Thanks for all the comments on the blog this week - terrific how you are chiming in.
(15) It is indispensable to establish a close cooperation between the public health authorities and the private physician, and we therefore wish to sincerely thank all colleagues and Public Health Officers for their collaboration.
(16) When Hayley Cropper swallows poison on Coronation Street on Monday night, taking her own life to escape inoperable pancreatic cancer, with her beloved husband, Roy, in pieces at her bedside, it will be the end of a character who, thanks to Hesmondhalgh's performance, has captivated and challenged British TV viewers for 16 years.
(17) Dr Richard Francis adds: "Thanks to great advances in research we're able to pinpoint when people like Angelina are BRCA carriers and therefore at risk.
(18) We wish to thank once again all the Chinese people and people around the world who have supported Beijing 2022 in this extraordinary bid journey.” Earlier, the president Xi threw his weight behind China’s bid, promising the “strongest support” for the Beijing Games in a one-minute video address to the IOC delegates.
(19) Thanks to a midwife’s visit and the Herts air ambulance, she survived – with a rare pituitary gland condition identified weeks later.
(20) I do want to thank all the fans and some of the media people that are here today and my Dominican people and all the Hispanic's all over the world.
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.