How to Use ingratitude in a Sentence

ingratitude

noun

• What is motherhood but a string of abuse, ingratitude and terror for what the savagery of the world will do to a child?
  — Patrick Connolly, orlandosentinel.com, 7 May 2021
• But the virtues here so outweigh the flaws that to complain seems almost like ingratitude.
  — New York Times, 9 Nov. 2021
• This is certainly the case with Truman Capote, who raised ingratitude to an art form.
  — New York Times, 25 May 2018
• Her good fortune had been given to her by her parents; to throw it away was a gesture of ingratitude.
  — Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker, 8 May 2017
• In the minds of many Britons, no matter the depth of her personal suffering, Meghan has been tried and convicted of ingratitude.
  — Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 8 Mar. 2021
• Sloane’s] statue is a huge sign of disrespect and ingratitude. ...
  — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Aug. 2020
• Never before has a boon to public health been met with such hysteria and ingratitude.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 20 Sep. 2019
• Oprah disinvited him from her show in response, and Franzen was rebuked on all sides for his ingratitude and his luck and his privilege.
  — New York Times, 26 June 2018
• This year establishment centrists have raised ingratitude to a high art since Joe Biden won the election without coattails.
  — Ted Rall, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2020
• After more than a year of the coronavirus pandemic, help us to combat the pandemic of ingratitude, which blinds us to all kinds of blessings we are surrounded by.
  — Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 28 June 2021
• Only wailing and filled diapers, debt and ingratitude, and inevitably sour teen years.
  — Ben Philippe, The New Yorker, 20 June 2021
• Envy and ingratitude sell, so Farhad Manjoo gets to misrepresent data, twist facts, and sow resentment in the paper of record.
  — Isaac Schorr, National Review, 25 Nov. 2020
• Lear rages at the ingratitude of his daughters and the crumbling of his regal identity, but these are ultimately stand-ins for a greater antagonist.
  — Paula Marantz Cohen, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2018
• An attitude of ingratitude is, alas, a common form of self-sabotage.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2023
• Seneca was a Roman senator, a philosopher and playwright who acted as tutor to the boy emperor and received nothing but rank ingratitude for his efforts.
  — Stephen Farber, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Feb. 2023
• A treacherous President stood in the way; and it can be easily seen how reluctant good men might be to admit an apostasy which involved so much of baseness and ingratitude.
  — Frederick Douglass, The Atlantic, 16 Aug. 2017
• Among the vices of the unforgiving progressive left are envy and intolerance, but perhaps the greatest is ingratitude.
  — James Freeman, WSJ, 4 Jan. 2022
• In the same chapter, Wu also explains and apologizes for her reaction to the Fresh Off the Boat season 5 renewal renewal, writing that her outburst stemmed from her own trauma on the set, not from ingratitude.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 24 Sep. 2022
• But the recent high-profile termination of a Tennessee physician has put a spotlight on how often this dedication is met with ingratitude — or worse.
  — Editorial Board, Star Tribune, 16 July 2021
• In its two scenes — which together last under an hour — the filling-station owner Bob and his wife, Mary, deal with the ingratitude and arrogance of Bob’s younger brother, Nate, a spendthrift academic whose studies were underwritten by the couple.
  — New York Times, 28 May 2021
• Equally important is for parents to instruct children to appreciate the damage that ingratitude can cause.
  — Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2020
• Despite the fulminating royal statement, every Thai knows that no one can beat the king himself for ingratitude, misbehaviour and disloyalty.
  — The Economist, 24 Oct. 2019
• Western indifference is a product of more than ingratitude.
  — Jonathan S. Tobin, National Review, 26 Sep. 2017
• To sacrifice this blessing on the altar of socialism would be an act of enormous vandalism and incalculable ingratitude.
  — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 13 Feb. 2020
• The president* throws a nutty over Gorsuch’s towering ingratitude.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 19 Dec. 2017
• Yet ingratitude toward America is central to the Left’s worldview — further reinforcing the unhappiness of its adherents.
  — Dennis Prager, National Review, 13 Feb. 2018
• Diski riskily interrogates the ingratitude lurking beneath her feelings toward Lessing — the aristocratic savior (of the Communist-Sufi-literary variety) to her Dickensian waif.
  — Heidi Julavits, New York Times, 15 June 2016
• This is an appearance unbecoming a public institution and, considering Jurich’s many achievements, indicative of ingratitude.
  — Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 1 Feb. 2018

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