What is another word for be ungrateful?

Pronunciation: [biː ʌnɡɹˈe͡ɪtfə͡l] (IPA)

There are numerous synonyms for the phrase "be ungrateful" that can be used to denote the absence of gratitude, appreciation, or thankfulness for something. Some commonly used synonyms include "ingrateful," "unthankful," "unappreciative," "ungracious," "unthankful," "unresponsive," and "entitled." Each of these terms carries a slightly different connotation, but all suggest a lack of gratitude or appreciation for something given or received. To avoid appearing ungrateful, it is important to express appreciation for the help, kindness, or generosity shown by others in our lives. Showing gratitude can help to build strong relationships, promote positivity, and increase overall well-being.

What are the hypernyms for Be ungrateful?

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Famous quotes with Be ungrateful

  • It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
    Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • Being a beggar, he said, was not his fault, and he refused either to have any compunction about it or to let it trouble him. He was the enemy of society, and quite ready to take to crime if he saw a good opportunity. He refused on principle to be thrifty. In the summer he saved nothing, spending his surplus earnings on drink, as he did not care about women. If he was penniless when winter came on, then society must look after him. He was ready to extract every penny he could from charity, provided that he was not expected to say thank you for it. He avoided religious charities, however, for he said it stuck in his throat to sing hymns for buns. He had various other points of honour; for instance, it was his boast that never in his life, even when starving, had he picked up a cigarette end. He considered himself in a class above the ordinary run of beggars, who, he said, were an abject lot, without even the decency to be ungrateful.
    George Orwell
  • “You just think about supporting a wife and children on a dollar and ninety cents a day. Most of us work on Sundays; poor people can’t afford to rest on the Sabbath in a great city like this. Sometimes when I do have a Sunday off I go to church and take my wife and the children. It seems respectable, somehow, to go. And then the minister gets up and talks about the gratitude we ought to feel to God for all the blessings he gives us, and how thankful we ought to be that we live through his mercy. It may be very true as far as he is concerned, but I often think—and I don’t mean to be ungrateful or irreverent—that most people in this world have very little to be thankful for, and very little reason to thank God for life at all. Nine tenths of the people in New York find scarcely a moment in their lives which they can call their own, and see mighty little but misery from one year’s end to the other.”
    Jack Finney

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