Crossword-Solution: UNGRATEFUL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ungrateful | a. | Not grateful; not thankful for favors; making no returns, or making ill return for kindness, attention, etc.; ingrateful. |
| Ungrateful | a. | Unpleasing; unacceptable; disagreeable; as, harsh sounds are ungrateful to the ear. |
We have 11 clues for the answer “UNGRATEFUL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is / To have a thankless child!- Shakespeare | 1 answer |
| Like Goneril and Regan | 1 answer |
| Peacekeepers given supply of coal, perhaps showing no appreciation | 1 answer |
| showing no gratitude | 1 answer |
| ingrate | 9 answers |
| unbeholden | 9 answers |
| A THANKLESS INTRODUCTION COURSE FOR MUG | 10 answers |
| Unappreciative | 10 answers |
| thankless | 22 answers |
| unthankful | 24 answers |
| Forgotten. | 63 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AERET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with UNGRATEFUL (5)
The Eagle did not prove ungrateful to his deliverer, for seeing the Peasant sitting under a wall which was not safe, he flew toward him and with his talons snatched a bundle from his head.
But I soon give up that notion for two things: she’d be mad and disgusted at his rascality and ungratefulness for leaving her, and so she’d sell him straight down the river again; and if she didn’t, everybody naturally despises an ungrateful nigger, and they’d make Jim feel it all the time, and so he’d feel ornery and disgraced.
The book, therefore, appeared as an avowed continuation of the Waverley Novels; and it would be ungrateful not to acknowledge, that it met with the same favourable reception as its predecessors.
How can I be ungrateful enough to have any concealment from _you?_ I love him,” she said simply, “I have loved him from first to last—even when I was wronging him in my own thoughts; even when I was saying the hardest and the cruellest words to him.
The looking over his letter again, in replying to it, had such a softening tendency, that it was particularly necessary to brace her up with a few decisive expressions; and she was so very much concerned at the idea of making him unhappy, and thought so much of what his mother and sisters would think and say, and was so anxious that they should not fancy her ungrateful, that Emma believed if the young man had come in her way at that moment, he would have been accepted after all.
Quotes with UNGRATEFUL (3)
Because I don’t care what anyone says or how often or winningly they say it: no one will ever, ever be able to persuade me that life is some awesome, rewarding treat. Because, here’s the truth: life is a catastrophe. The basic fact of existence — of walking around trying to feed ourselves and find friends and whatever else we do — is a catastrophe. Forget all this ridiculous ‘Our Town’ nonsense everyone talks: the miracle of a newborn babe, the joy of one simple blossom, Life…
One of the main reasons that we lose our enthusiasm in life is because we become ungrateful..we let what was once a miracle become common to us. We get so accustomed to his goodness it becomes a routine..
Those who value wisdom know that when you give people something for nothing, you produce ungrateful people; that when you obscure the differences between men and women, you end up with many aimless men and angry women; that when you give children “self-esteem” without their earning it, you produce narcissists who enter adulthood often incapable of empathy and of handling life; that if you do not destroy evil, it will proliferate; and that if you are kind to the cruel, you wil…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1982).