(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!
Unkind
Definition:
(a.) Having no race or kindred; childless.
(a.) Not kind; contrary to nature, or the law of kind or kindred; unnatural.
(a.) Wanting in kindness, sympathy, benevolence, gratitude, or the like; cruel; harsh; unjust; ungrateful.
Example Sentences:
(1) Clearly, therefore, image is everything, especially in a world that can still be unkind to geeky people venturing out in public wearing their latest invention.
(2) You know, I don't mean to be unkind but I think you should put your phone down because you're just being a dick, really, just enjoy the gig because it's a better … it's a dick job, filming the show.
(3) Somehow, British zoos still enjoy a protected, deeply forgiving space, in a nation of pet lovers, for manifest unkindness towards animals.
(4) Mottling of teeth can have significant psychological impact on patients--particularly on adolescents, who may be subjected to much unkind teasing.
(5) This agenda might unkindly be described as systematic anti-liberalism with a seasoning of resentment and paranoia.
(6) The place to go in parliament for unkind evaluations of Miliband’s legacy is the Labour benches.
(7) But sometimes the revelations come fast, and when they do, they are usually particularly unkind.
(8) But clearly results have been immeasurably more crushing and unkind than I could ever have feared.
(9) I'd forgotten quite how swathey it was, rather unkindly imagining literary novelists and Big Thinkers in stripped-pine north London would be over-represented.
(10) And while Özil is allowed to have a poor game, it is hard to block out the memory of those unkind whispers on his departure from Madrid about his conditioning and stamina.
(11) Irony Steven Friedman , director of Rhodes and Johannesburg universities, said: "It has to be said that one of the great ironies of the debates about how we should receive Barack Obama is that, while a lot of South Africans are very sympathetic to him because he's the first African-American president, "I don't think that it's unkind to say that he's done absolutely nothing for this continent.
(12) I got to know him quite well after that and never once did I see him being unkind or inconsiderate to people.
(13) The academic Steve Bruce once unkindly stated: "When Ulster Protestants talk about being British, it is clear that the Britain they have in mind is no more recent than the 1950s, and often their points of reference are positively Victorian."
(14) Unkind though it is to remind him of his own cruel witticism aimed at Gordon Brown when he was at his weakest, there is now more than something of Mr Bean about Dr Cable.
(15) If modern life is unkind to our mental health, it’s no doubt in part because so many young people fear that admission of vulnerability will affect their employment, or their relationships, at a time when their futures are already far less clear than those of their parents.
(16) The results of this study lend weight to the argument that those who wish to have their facial abnormalities reduced may be accurately reporting that society is unkind to them.
(17) History tends to be unkind to those who embrace the evil practices of those they once denounced.
(18) Ruben Loftus-Cheek provided the visitors’ second, sliding a pass through the centre for Oscar to collect before McFadzean was aware of his presence, the finish crisply clipped into the far corner from an unkind angle.
(19) The crime also inspired a Bollywood film – on which MacKeown was never consulted, but later said “was not unkind” in its depiction of her daughter.
(20) On Thursday, as one SNP fundraising leaflet unkindly but accurately put it, the party has a chance to “complete the set”, making it the dominant force in all areas of Scotland’s political life.