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INGRATITUDE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A lack of gratitude
Synonyms:
ingratitude; ungratefulness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Hypernyms ("ingratitude" is a kind of...):
feeling (the experiencing of affective and emotional states)
Antonym:
gratitude (a feeling of thankfulness and appreciation)
Context examples:
He could have endured poverty, and while this distress had been the meed of his virtue, he gloried in it; but the ingratitude of the Turk and the loss of his beloved Safie were misfortunes more bitter and irreparable.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Ingratitude is among them a capital crime, as we read it to have been in some other countries: for they reason thus; that whoever makes ill returns to his benefactor, must needs be a common enemy to the rest of mankind, from whom he has received no obligation, and therefore such a man is not fit to live.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
She says she never shall think well of anybody again; and one cannot wonder at it, after being so deceived!—meeting with such ingratitude, where so much kindness had been shewn, so much confidence had been placed!
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
To be called into notice in such a manner, to hear that it was but the prelude to something so infinitely worse, to be told that she must do what was so impossible as to act; and then to have the charge of obstinacy and ingratitude follow it, enforced with such a hint at the dependence of her situation, had been too distressing at the time to make the remembrance when she was alone much less so, especially with the superadded dread of what the morrow might produce in continuation of the subject.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
She could think of nothing better: and though there was something in it which her own heart could not approve—something of ingratitude, merely glossed over—it must be done, or what would become of Harriet?
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
A murmur of approbation followed Elizabeth’s simple and powerful appeal, but it was excited by her generous interference, and not in favour of poor Justine, on whom the public indignation was turned with renewed violence, charging her with the blackest ingratitude.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
