(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.
Ungrateful
Definition:
(a.) Not grateful; not thankful for favors; making no returns, or making ill return for kindness, attention, etc.; ingrateful.
(a.) Unpleasing; unacceptable; disagreeable; as, harsh sounds are ungrateful to the ear.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Don't be such an ungrateful bastard," God snapped.
(2) Chelsea may have been ungrateful towards Ranieri, and Juventus welcoming, but La Vecchia Signora is not a humanitarian charity.
(3) My youngest texts me to tell me that I am "an ungrateful poo" and I can see why.
(4) Karzai sounded very ungrateful, and that damaged the goodwill within the United States.” Ghani’s visit may also bring to the surface the first points of serious tension between him and the US government.
(5) Immediately a hullabaloo followed, with critics accused of being ungrateful by those in favour of what the government offered.
(6) "Gates argued to the president directly that Netanyahu is not only ungrateful, but also endangering his country by refusing to grapple with Israel's growing isolation and with the demographic challenges it faces if it keeps control of the West Bank."
(7) He is a great athlete, I’m sure he worked hard, I also heard his grades were great.” The underlying assumption – that Kaepernick was being ungrateful to white America by protesting against racism – is as troubling as it is offensive.
(8) Peter Wright QC, prosecuting, described him as the ultimate "ungrateful son" who had an "insatiable thirst for cash".
(9) Ralph Miliband's status as a refugee Levy refers to this in a way that suggests Miliband was ungrateful despite being afforded shelter from the Nazis.
(10) It would be very ungrateful to have that facility and not use it.” He has, of course, no intention of retiring.
(11) Very sick and dying patients and ungrateful, demanding patients can arouse anger and despair.
(12) Who besides Rays and Red Sox fans didn't want to see Terry Francona in the visitors dugout at Fenway Park, primed to stick it to his old bosses, ready to crush the dreams of ungrateful souls in dark offices .
(13) Adding to the insult in some German eyes is a perceived ungratefulness in Athens.
(14) Mugabe described Mujuru as “ungrateful, power-hungry, daft, corrupt, foolish, divisive and a disgrace”, and accused her of collaborating with opposition forces and white people to undermine the country’s post-independence gains.
(15) The country is ungrateful and now parliament is ungrateful.
(16) Their motivations are pure, they say, they want to paint the best and most beautiful art they can and they appear baffled that the public is so ungrateful.
(17) I sort of think the guy deserves a break …" My fellow Game of Thrones (GoT) fan merely sighs and says, with a shake of the head: "He's still an idiot, and a pretty ungrateful one at that."
(18) American rightwingers – in between calling me a "bitch" and "cunt" countless times – would have you know I'm an "Islamo-Nazi anti-speech ungrateful immigrant" incapable of appreciating the wonders of the first amendment.
(19) Protests such as these have drawn loud criticism on social media from Swedes annoyed at “ungrateful” refugees.
(20) Just as Erdoğan became all-powerful he also became personally vulnerable, battling cancer and grieving the loss of his mother who had shielded him from his frustrated and over-religious father – whose worst traits his son is now displaying as he tours Turkey to chastise his ungrateful children at a series of monster rallies: "Look what I have done for them!