as in ungratefulness
failure or refusal to acknowledge receipt of something good from another their daughter's ingratitude for all that they have done for her is truly appalling

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Recent Examples of ingratitude Breaking news update: Negotiations between the United States and Ukraine broke down on Friday afternoon after a confrontational meeting at the White House, where President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance accused Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of ingratitude. Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Feb. 2025 For Markus, who was taken in by Viktor when his father died, ignoring the Bala name is an act of profound ingratitude. Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 24 Jan. 2025 Challenging Trump for the presidential nomination struck Trump as monumental ingratitude. Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, Orlando Sentinel, 20 Dec. 2024 But even to seem to scorn a day in the 80s in July in the nation’s would appear to show meteorological ingratitude. Martin Weil, Washington Post, 19 July 2024 See All Example Sentences for ingratitude

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“Ingratitude.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ingratitude. Accessed 14 Jun. 2025.

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