ingrate

UK /ˈɪnɡɹeɪt/ US /ˈɪnɡɹeɪt/
adj 2noun 1

Definitions

adj

1

Ungrateful.

Many of theſe might ſeem ingrate and unkind children, that vvill no better acknovvledge and recogniſe their parents in vvords and outvvard pretence, but abrenounce and caſt them off, as though they hated them as dogs and ſerpents.

Yet in his mind malitious and ingrate

2

Unfriendly; unpleasant.

noun

1

An ungrateful or unpleasant person.

But Mr Pecksniff, dismissing all ephemeral considerations of social pleasure and enjoyment, concentrated his meditations on the one great virtuous purpose before him, of casting out that ingrate and deceiver, whose presence yet troubled his domestic hearth, and was a sacrilege upon the altars of his household gods.

"Speak the truth, you ingrate!" cried Miss Havisham, passionately striking her stick upon the floor; “you are tired of me.”

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