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In the same way, the meeting with Zelensky in late February seemed designed to cast the Ukrainian president as an ingrate and to lay the groundwork for a withdrawal, or at least significant reduction, of U.S. aid as Kyiv tries to rebuff the Russian invasion that began in February 2022.—Niall Stanage, The Hill, 21 May 2025 The hideously fickle Lydia slaps Janine across the face for being an ingrate.—Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 29 Apr. 2025 The problem of institutions of higher education churning out not godly patriots, but decadent ingrates, has been with us for a very long time.—Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Apr. 2025 By then, no official blacklist existed but she was routinely assailed by right wingers as a treasonous ingrate and tool of Hanoi.—Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for ingrate
Word History
Etymology
Latin ingratus ungrateful, from in- + gratus grateful — more at grace
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