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ingrate

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7 lettersPronunciation /ˈɪnɡɹeɪt/Part of speech nounSorted aeginrtStarts with IEnds with E0 clues
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  1. a person who shows no gratitude

Word origin

First attested in 1393, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English ingrat, from Latin ingrātus (“disagreeable”), from in- (“not”) + grātus (“pleasing”). Cognate with French ingrat.

Used in a sentence

  • Yet in his mind malitious and ingrate
  • But I will lift the down-trod Mortimer / As high in the air as this unthankful king, / As this ingrate and canker'd Bolingbroke.
  • The causes of that which is pleasing , or ingrate to the hearing , may receive light by that which is pleasing or ingrate to the sight

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