Adjective : a thankless job. ,a thankless child. From Dictionary.com.
I began to weary of the small Yankee greed and griping and "thanklessness" which I experienced. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs] Reference
I had never been struck at so keenly, for my thanklessness to. From Wordnik.com. [Great Expectations] Reference
“I am sorry that I should have made no exception to such thanklessness.”. From Wordnik.com. [Phineas Redux] Reference
Lotta muttered something about the thoughtless thanklessness of young people, and then took herself down-stairs. From Wordnik.com. [Nina Balatka] Reference
The same figure would serve just as well to describe the thanklessness of Belief to the Disbelief which has purged and exalted it. From Wordnik.com. [Voltaire] Reference
December 28th, 2005 at 1: 53 am tulip flowers rose delivery says: mythologies superimposes delimited? permissible thanklessness … Thanks!!!. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Yesterday, Bush Said Confirming NYT Story “Would Compromise Our Ability To Protect The Peopleâ€] Reference
Who more grieved at his thanklessness than Thou art?. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper] Reference
It is about the thanklessness of children to a father. From Wordnik.com. [The Children's Book of Celebrated Pictures] Reference
It is a silence not of thanklessness, but of respect and devotion. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures Among Books] Reference
Ambrose was accustomed to the thanklessness of the humbler natives. From Wordnik.com. [The Fur Bringers A Story of the Canadian Northwest] Reference
And still be kind to him, all be With thanklessness he thee requite. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III] Reference
"I am sorry that I should have made no exception to such thanklessness.". From Wordnik.com. [Phineas Redux] Reference
"Blanchett is perfect as always, despite the thanklessness of the role.". From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily] Reference
"You must forgive me my seeming thanklessness, Mademoiselle," he pursued. From Wordnik.com. [The Trampling of the Lilies] Reference
The warmer the love, so much the more sensitively is felt the chill of thanklessness; only. From Wordnik.com. [Christian Ethics. Volume II.���Pure Ethics.] Reference
And what shall one say when one has to endure thanklessness and woe from one's own children?. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck] Reference
Not gratitude; for their usual sincere thanklessness makes half the pleasure of doing them good. From Wordnik.com. [The Children] Reference
It is only experience that can teach a man to appreciate the ingrained thanklessness of the human race. From Wordnik.com. [Stories By English Authors: Italy (Selected by Scribners)] Reference
I had never been struck at so keenly, for my thanklessness to Joe, as through the brazen impostor Pumblechook. From Wordnik.com. [Great Expectations] Reference
The girls, who by this time were used to his thanklessness, went on their way and did their business in the town. From Wordnik.com. [Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes] Reference
Lotta muttered something about the thoughtless thanklessness of young people, and then took herself down - stairs. From Wordnik.com. [Nina Balatka] Reference
Any flagging in partisan enthusiasm is sure to be attributed to sore-headedness, and leads to charges of perfidy and thanklessness. From Wordnik.com. [Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic] Reference
Why have you given me all the sorrows, and the drudgery, and the bitterness and the thanklessness of motherhood, with none of its joys!. From Wordnik.com. [Cheerful—By Request] Reference
It held that God's design was the happiness of man, and that the ascetic rejection of human delights, save for the common good, was thanklessness to the. From Wordnik.com. [History of the English People, Volume III (of 8) The Parliament, 1399-1461; The Monarchy 1461-1540] Reference
Convinced of the thanklessness of any further attempt to convince the woman against her will, he gave it up, and was grateful for the respite promised him. From Wordnik.com. [The Bronze Bell] Reference
Still, Annie, the cook, complained later, to the parlor-maid, about the thanklessness of cooking dinners for folks who didn't eat more'n a mouthful, anyway. From Wordnik.com. [Emma McChesney and Co.] Reference
Susan charitably took Mrs. Cobb and Annie and Daisy off Mrs. Lancaster's hands, and listened sympathetically to a dissertation upon the thanklessness of sons. From Wordnik.com. [Saturday's Child] Reference
No woman would bear my children, and I’m lost to a life of thanklessness and a tomorrow that is one day closer to my end. From Wordnik.com. [365 tomorrows » 2006 » March : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day] Reference
I want no thanklessness, no secret guile. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-07-01] Reference
The thanklessness of the leadership position. From Wordnik.com. [Meryl Streep Barnard Graduation: 'You Just Have To Make Your Mother And Father Proud' (FULL TEXT) (VIDEO)] Reference
'My thanklessness has made you feel that.'. From Wordnik.com. [Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster] Reference
'Twere thanklessness in me to bless thee not. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 493, June 11, 1831] Reference
'You suffered from this thanklessness of men. From Wordnik.com. [Aurora Leigh] Reference
Shall in repining thanklessness declare. From Wordnik.com. [The pains of memory, a poem] Reference
9: 53 PM thanklessness said. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-08-01] Reference
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