In a sentence
Six example sentences with ingrate, each labelled with its topic.
The old merchant in the novel dies convinced his nephew is an ingrate who never once thanked him for anything.
Literature
After hosting the family for a week of elaborate dinners, she called her brother an ingrate for complaining about salt.
Cooking
Court chroniclers painted the exiled duke as an ingrate who repaid two decades of royal favor with rebellion.
History
Seneca devotes a whole treatise to the ingrate, arguing that a gift wasted on one is still worth giving.
Philosophy
The mentor called his former protege an ingrate for leaving with the client list and never once saying thank you.
Business
The film's rich uncle brands every nephew an ingrate, then leaves his fortune to the one who never asked for it.
Movies
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