67 examples of ingrate in sentences

Then there was Clémence de Maille, purest and noblest of all, niece of Richelieu and hapless wife of the cruel ingrate Condé, his equal in daring and his superior in every other high quality.

Why should he, the foul ingrate, Cast destruction in my path?

" "I would be indeed an ingrate to refuse it.

Nevertheless I shall remain a collector and, humanly speaking, an ingrate, a wolf, a caitiff, until those six articles are mine.

I am not an ingrate.

O, tell me not my husband was ingrate, Or that he did attempt to poison me, Or that he laid me here, and I was dead; These are no means at all to win my love.

In a former paper we said that Edmund Burke reminded us less of a man than of a tutelar Angel; and so we can sometimes think of the "ingrate and cankered Bolingbroke," with his subtle intellect, his showy, sophistical eloquence, his power of intrigue, his consummate falsehood, his vice and his infidelity as a "superior fiend"a kind of human Belial

One day shortly after he had left Ninon's house, she noticed on her dressing table a letter, which she opened to find the following effusion: "Indigne de mes feux, indigne de mes larmes, Je renonce sans peine à tes faibles appas; Mon amour te prêtait des charmes, Ingrate, que tu n'avais pas.

" Or, as might be said substantially in English: Unworthy my flame, unworthy a tear, I rejoice to renounce thy feeble allure; My love lent thee charms that endear, Which, ingrate, thou couldst not procure.

Whatever precautions the Countess may take to control the amour propre of the Marquise, she will never make anything else out of her than an ingrate.

Close in attendance on her moves an ebon shadowZamora, the ingrate foundling who, reared by the Duchesse, swore that he would make his benefactress ascend the scaffold, and kept his oath.

Only an ingrate would have turned and fled; and for the next hour or two I suffered Quinby to exploit my wounds and me for a good deal more than our intrinsic value.

Stood, on his ingrate friend to gaze; no answ'ring love-look came; Then, mortal grief his spirit shook, and bow'd his war-worn frame; Faith, innocence, avail'd not him!

I have a friend, a kinder friend has no man; Like an ingrate, I left my friend abruptly; Left him, to muse on the old familiar faces.

The girl blandly laughed: "You venerable ingrate!"

INGRATITUDE, f., vice de l'ingrat; action ingrate.

It is never ingrate to its fortune.

What could he do or say against it all without seeming a churl and an ingrate?

"I was doing the best I could for you," he said, staring hard at the ingrate.

cantò l' armi e gli amori, Ch' a lui lasciò la fistola morendo; Che laggiù nello 'nferno è un nero speco, dove esala un fumo pien di puzza Dalle tristi fornaci d' Acheronte; E che quivi punite eternamente In tormenti di tenebre e di pianto Son le femmine ingrate e sconoscenti.

"My dear Henry, "I were an imbecile ingrate if I did not hasten to give you my warmest thanks for the splendid entertainment of last night.

Hotham is a traitor, an ingrate who has betrayed me, betrayed us all.

Language like this, one can easily understand, provoked language from the indignant young man which in less heated moments he would have disdained to utter; and the aunt and nephew parted in fierce anger, and after mutual denunciation of each otherhe as a disobedient ingrate, she as an imperious, ungenerous tyrant.

Even now that I have entirely severed my connexion with that ingrate, I seem to feel the wounds, like dagger-thrusts, which he dealt me with so callous a hand.

Si je n'aimois pas cet homme-, avouons que je serois bien ingrate.

67 examples of  ingrate  in sentences