How to Use ungrateful in a Sentence

ungrateful

adjective
  • I don't mean to seem ungrateful.
  • Then there was this email exchange with an ungrateful greedy geezer.
    — Tom Margenau, Dallas News, 23 July 2023
  • That suggests that my miss tends to be ungrateful.
    — Mary Crossan, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
  • Please don’t take me as being ungrateful for the end-of-the-month rain.
    — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 5 Oct. 2024
  • Maybe not quite yet, but ungrateful is no way to stay breathing around Joe.
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 24 Apr. 2025
  • Old fogey-ish, ungrateful and stupid.
    — Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 10 Sep. 2025
  • This is far from the first time Abby has called out the girls for being ungrateful.
    — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 8 Apr. 2021
  • Trump might feel that the Taiwanese have been ungrateful and have not paid tribute.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 2 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • But there’s more to the story than the ungrateful teen realizes.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 6 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • This list is full of difficult moms who try their best for their ungrateful kids, and Lois is at the top.
    — Marianne Eloise, Vulture, 10 May 2025
  • This list is full of difficult moms who try their best for their ungrateful kids, and Lois is at the top.
    — Marianne Eloise, Vulture, 10 May 2025
  • Doesn’t matter if two-film-olds are ungrateful to the industry that has given them all.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz India, 3 July 2019
  • But he was often scorned by viewers who mocked his Mandarin and called him lazy or ungrateful.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2021
  • Is that possible without looking ungrateful for all of her help?
    — Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2022
  • But, in the present, don’t mistake Ekeler as bitter or ungrateful.
    — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 26 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • On someone else, this nonchalance could seem ungrateful.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Anything else feels ungrateful.
    — Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The players, in this formulation are wealthy and ungrateful elites.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 21 June 2021
  • Bridges knows there’s a fine line between thoughtfulness and the appearance of being ungrateful.
    — Dan Singer, Dallas News, 2 Feb. 2020
  • Matt delivers the news of the 10-day deal to Leroy, who at first seems extremely ungrateful.
    — Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Faring even worse is Clara, thinly rendered as an ungrateful child and an obstacle for her mother.
    — Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 13 Sep. 2025
  • But for years, critiquing aspects of fame has been a pretty reliable way of getting a singer dragged as ungrateful or unfit to be famous.
    — Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2024
  • Such rhetorical attacks on the press are deeply unfair and the authors of these attacks are profoundly ungrateful.
    — James Freeman, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2021
  • 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
  • And now you will be forever tarred as an ungrateful Negative Nancy!
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 18 Feb. 2025

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