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Meaning of Ingrate | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized
ˈɪnɡɹeɪt

Definitions

An ungrateful or unpleasant person.

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Examples

“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”
“Out of my sight, ingrate!”
“The consensus—certainly among the great and the good of Cambridge, Massachusetts—was that he was an ultranationalist, a reactionary, and, above all, an ingrate.”

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