Adjective : ungrateful heirs. ,an ungrateful task. From Dictionary.com.
This gave rather a pretty color; but still Mrs. Peterkin ungratefully said it tasted of anything but coffee. From Wordnik.com. [The Peterkin Papers] Reference
You treated me falsely, ungratefully, and cruelly. From Wordnik.com. [David Copperfield] Reference
I hope you won't think that I am acting ungratefully. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
The young man glared back ungratefully and didn't answer. From Wordnik.com. [Bonecrack]
"I wish the girls hadn't come down," she thought ungratefully. From Wordnik.com. [Glory and the Other Girl] Reference
Citizens who had so ungratefully and indiscreetly offended him. From Wordnik.com. [Discourses] Reference
"No," said I, somewhat ungratefully, and pointed to her fair cousin. From Wordnik.com. [The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope — Volume 1] Reference
You foolishly and ungratefully say you haven't a friend in the world. From Wordnik.com. [The Mystery of Monastery Farm] Reference
Browning ungratefully as she and Beatrice sat at dinner that evening. From Wordnik.com. [Hilltop Tryst]
No harm at all save that she would be behaving ungratefully to Hannah. From Wordnik.com. [Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'] Reference
"And where aren't you ...?" the mousebeaver Pucky peeped ungratefully. From Wordnik.com. [Phantom Fleet]
BELISARIUS, a general of the Eastern Empire ungratefully treated by the. From Wordnik.com. [Redgauntlet] Reference
Graces that are received ungratefully droop like flowers deprived of rain. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
Then he thought of his home, his parents whom he had so ungratefully left. From Wordnik.com. [An American Robinson Crusoe for American Boys and Girls] Reference
"I wish Falconer would keep his stories to himself," said Billy ungratefully. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Darkened Windows] Reference
Trade and Profession in civilized society, has been most ungratefully despized. From Wordnik.com. [John Adams diary 9, includes notes and draft essay, 1 - 11 February 1763, [June - July 1763]] Reference
Bismarck declined, but not ungratefully, and the way to a reconciliation was opened. From Wordnik.com. [William of Germany] Reference
Think how she would, she could but feel as if she were ungratefully abandoning Clara. From Wordnik.com. [The Coast of Chance] Reference
A boding stillness reigned, on which the sound of their carriage wheels ungratefully broke. From Wordnik.com. [A Love Story] Reference
'I have behaved very shamefully, very ungenerously, very ungratefully to her,' said Shirley. From Wordnik.com. [Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte] Reference
"Yes, if age and sickness and trouble did not make one shed it so soon," said I ungratefully. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873] Reference
Russia injudiciously and ungratefully insisted on depriving Rumania of the portion of Rumanian. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915] Reference
Also there is one beautiful Tobias and the Angel there by a painter whose name I most ungratefully forget. From Wordnik.com. [An Englishwoman's Love-Letters] Reference
I know not what could have possessed the great Cordovan poet to call thee 'holy gift ungratefully received.'. From Wordnik.com. [Don Quixote] Reference
The book of mystification was then almost ungratefully closed, and the serious business of packing commenced. From Wordnik.com. [Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta] Reference
Like a snake, you have ungratefully turned upon one who was a second father to you; your churlishness has made you like a bull. From Wordnik.com. [The Blue Fairy Book] Reference
Still, ungratefully, when she was outdoors in this her refuge, she wished she didn't have to conjure the night sky out of memories. From Wordnik.com. [The Boat of a Million Years]
Again he wept, but it was in terror at the thought of God's anger, and in grief that he had sinned so ungratefully against his Maker. From Wordnik.com. [The Runaway The Adventures of Rodney Roverton] Reference
Of course this only meant that I had forgotten, ungratefully, the country in which any story by ALICE HEGAN RICE might be expected to be laid. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 24, 1917] Reference
"Pooh! that's all you know about it," cried Stevie, ungratefully, slipping down from his nest among the cushions; he did not relish the personal tone the conversation had taken. From Wordnik.com. [The Children's Portion] Reference
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