How to Use ingrate in a Sentence
ingrate
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Some of these ingrates that kneel at the national anthem.
—Nancy Levine, SI.com, 3 Oct. 2017
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The president seems to divide aides into two groups: those loyal to their masters, and ingrates.
—The Economist, 1 Feb. 2018
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Outside of the Fake News or politically motivated ingrates,...
—Margaret Talev, Bloomberg.com, 2 Oct. 2017
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