How to Use ungrateful in a Sentence

ungrateful

adjective

• I don't mean to seem ungrateful.
• But strike the right tone and avoid sounding ungrateful.
  — Johnny C. Taylor Jr., USA TODAY, 17 June 2020
• This is far from the first time Abby has called out the girls for being ungrateful.
  — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 8 Apr. 2021
• Team Trump should ignore the ungrateful car companies and move ahead with the new rules.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 16 June 2019
• Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors?
  — Yaa Bofah, Good Housekeeping, 9 Jan. 2023
• Ser Davos has had a rough few years, all in service to an ungrateful king who ended up dead.
  — Eliza Thompson, Cosmopolitan, 14 Mar. 2017
• Then there was this email exchange with an ungrateful greedy geezer.
  — Tom Margenau, Dallas News, 23 July 2023
• Gen X is helping out by lumping themselves in with the boomers, and against those ungrateful kids.
  — Molly Roberts, The Denver Post, 7 Nov. 2019
• How about the Carnegie Deli that those ungrateful New Yorkers allowed to close last year after 79 years?
  — Linda Zavoral, The Mercury News, 11 May 2017
• Central to much of this is the notion that Gu is somehow ungrateful for what the United States has given her.
  — Lincoln Mitchell, CNN, 8 Feb. 2022
• But he was often scorned by viewers who mocked his Mandarin and called him lazy or ungrateful.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2021
• Doesn’t matter if two-film-olds are ungrateful to the industry that has given them all.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz India, 3 July 2019
• This was a full bit on ungrateful NFL players kneeling.
  — Karen Yuan, Fortune, 19 June 2020
• But, in the present, don’t mistake Ekeler as bitter or ungrateful.
  — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 26 Aug. 2023
• Many thought that Dixie's reaction to the chef cooked meal, and Charli's comment were rude and, once again, ungrateful.
  — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 19 Nov. 2020
• The days are long, her kids are ungrateful, her husband is distant, and her to-do list is never really done.
  — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 23 Oct. 2023
• Only the ungrateful deceased are permitted to rest — in pieces, most likely; in hell for sure.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2019
• She was roundly attacked by many as an ungrateful scold.
  — Dom Giordano, Philly.com, 11 Oct. 2017
• The players, in this formulation are wealthy and ungrateful elites.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 21 June 2021
• Being ungrateful and rejecting food is doubly wasteful: of the food itself and of the caretaker’s work.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Nov. 2022
• Bridges knows there’s a fine line between thoughtfulness and the appearance of being ungrateful.
  — Dan Singer, Dallas News, 2 Feb. 2020
• In the 45-second video, Paskell reenacts giving an ungrateful client a blowout and a pair of false eyelashes while recounting the client's deluge of complaints.
  — Sara Miranda, Allure, 31 Jan. 2022
• Is that possible without looking ungrateful for all of her help?
  — Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2022
• If thankless children are sharper than a serpent’s tooth, as King Lear thought, our skin can be punctured, too, by ungrateful parents.
  — New York Times, 9 Nov. 2021
• Such rhetorical attacks on the press are deeply unfair and the authors of these attacks are profoundly ungrateful.
  — James Freeman, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2021
• And yet in spite of all of this (warning: spoilers ahead), this ungrateful creature could not find a single nice anecdote to tell about her dad at his own funeral in the Netflix revival.
  — Diana Bruk, Country Living, 5 Dec. 2016
• Some called Gomez ungrateful while others accused Raisa of donating her kidney for clout.
  — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 11 Mar. 2023
• In it, Besh describes his former protégé as ungrateful, arrogant and prone to excess.
  — Brett Anderson, NOLA.com, 24 Jan. 2018
• Perspective Carolyn Hax: Dad struggles with wedding toast to ‘selfish’ and ‘ungrateful’...
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2024
• And please don't misinterpret my venting for being ungrateful.
  — Christina Crawford, Parents, 7 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024