Crossword-Solution: THANKLESS 9 letters, 15 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

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Word Word Type Definition
Thankless a. Not acknowledging favors; not expressing thankfulness;
unthankful; ungrateful.
Thankless a. Not obtaining or deserving thanks; unacceptable; as, a
thankless task.

We have 15 clues for the answer “THANKLESS”

Clue Answers
Like ingrates 1 answer
INAPPRECIATIVE 2 answers
Unappreciated 3 answers
Ungrateful 9 answers
ingrate 9 answers
unbeholden 9 answers
Unappreciative 10 answers
unrewarded 23 answers
profitless 24 answers
unthankful 24 answers
Unrewarding. 25 answers
Unprofitable. 35 answers
Ungracious 42 answers
untaught 54 answers
Unceremonious 72 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AREET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with THANKLESS (5)

Why on earth should their beds be properly aired, seeing that they left them in such a thankless hurry? Would it not serve them jolly well right if they came back and found that their parents were spending the week-end in the country? It would be the moral lesson they have been in need of ever since we met them; but if we contrived things in this way Mrs.
Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991
Here there were no white men, no soldiers, nor any rubber or ivory to be gathered for cruel and thankless taskmasters.
Tarzan of the Apes Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
Then little Clover bowed her head, While her soft tears fell like dew; For her gentle heart was grieved, to find That her sisters’ words were true, And the insect she had watched so long When helpless, poor, and lone, Thankless for all her faithful care, On his golden wings had flown.
Flower Fables Louisa May Alcott 1994
His idea was that his travelling salesmen could be recruited largely from college professors, parsons, and newspaper men, who were weary of their thankless tasks, and would welcome an opportunity to get out on the road.
The Haunted Bookshop Christopher Morley 2008
She had been in love with a clever man who had slighted her, and she had married a fool in the hope that this thankless wit, reflecting on it, would conclude that she had no appreciation of merit, and that he had flattered himself in supposing that she cared for his own.
The American Henry James 1994

Quotes with THANKLESS (3)

Maybe sheetrocking wasn't one of Sully's favorite jobs, but like most physical labor, there was a rhythm to it that you could find if you cared to look, and once you found this rhythm it'd get you through a morning. Rhythm was what Sully had counted on over the long years - that and the wisdom to understand that no job, no matter how thankless or stupid or backbreaking, could not be gotten through. The clock moved if you let it.
Richard Russo Nobody's Fool
Alan," cried I, "what makes ye so good to me? What makes ye care for such a thankless fellow?" Deed, and I don't, know" said Alan. "For just precisely what I thought I liked about ye, was that ye never quarrelled: — and now I like ye better!
Robert Louis Stevenson Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson, Fiction, Classics, Action & Adventure
Striving for successful goals will have a tendency at times to be discouraging, thankless, and mentally draining. You are entitled to these feelings, however you are not entitled to give up.
DeWayne Owens
Where this answer appears

Appears in: Newsday, NYT.

Used 4 times in crossword archives (1996–2021).