ingrate

noun

in·grate ˈin-ˌgrāt

: an ungrateful person

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Why would a company bother to invest in innovation, or even to train workers in specialized skills, if those ingrates could walk that knowledge out the door? —

Steven Levy, WIRED, 13 Jan. 2023 To these ingrates, the Trump administration has sent a straightforward message: you will no longer be allowed to play the United States for a sucker. —

Randall Schweller, Foreign Affairs, 14 Aug. 2018 The violent ingrates stole the man’s phone and hopped out of the car. —

Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 21 Feb. 2024 But those comfy corporate media ingrates aren’t real revolutionaries waging an uprising like the intra-party conflicts among their idols Joseph Stalin, Grigory Zinoviev, Vladimir Lenin, and Leon Trotsky during Russia’s October Revolution. —

Armond White, National Review, 29 Mar. 2024 See all Example Sentences for ingrate