How to Use ingrate in a Sentence

ingrate

noun
  • Some of these ingrates that kneel at the national anthem.
    Nancy Levine, SI.com, 3 Oct. 2017
  • The president seems to divide aides into two groups: those loyal to their masters, and ingrates.
    The Economist, 1 Feb. 2018
  • Now hopefully some of you ingrates are going to make up for ruining my life by launching a GoFundMe page to pay my legal bills.
    Rex Huppke, chicagotribune.com, 15 July 2019
  • One of the most intriguing threads in the book concerns the woman’s ingrate of a daughter, to whom the Cheffe nonetheless kowtows, sending love in her child’s direction even when that child undermines her in every way.
    Bethanne Patrick, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2019
  • Rosen was pilloried by the college sports establishment—as lazy, as an ingrate, as a spoiled brat unable to balance his academics and the carefree life of a major college quarterback.
    Jason Gay, WSJ, 18 Aug. 2017
  • Trump repeatedly touches on a familiar theme of the U.S. being taken advantage of by foreign ingrates.
    Oliver Milman, Slate Magazine, 2 June 2017
  • Outside of the fake news or politically motivated ingrates, people are now starting to recognize the amazing work that has been done by FEMA and our great military.
    NBC News, 1 Oct. 2017
  • This form of rebellion journalism makes Martin seem an accusatory ingrate rather than an artist with a personal vision whose endeavors are worthy of respect.
    Armond White, National Review, 10 July 2019
  • Outside of the Fake News or politically motivated ingrates,...
    Margaret Talev, Bloomberg.com, 2 Oct. 2017

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