Use "thankless" in a sentence
thankless example sentences
thankless
1. that this job is thankless
2. what it was, and I certainly wasn’t such a thankless daughter to demand an explanation
3. You thankless bastard! If you dare say one more word, one, about Aspen, I promise you it will be the last word you ever say
4. It would be a thankless task
5. Hooray for me! Macmillan, did you still think I was soft on shipbuilders? Secondly, back in pre-computer days, when carbon copies of all correspondence circulated widely, one of my more onerous, thankless tasks—required by the Admiral and the ACO—was reading of every last piece of correspondence that went into and came out of both SupShip and Ingalls HQ
6. Another thankless task was re-doing Maria’s research of all 50 states’ statutes regarding the necessity, or at least advisability, of filing so-called “pre liens” on ALL jobs that EI undertook
7. It had never occurred to anyone in Jessie's team that she would need to overcome a big challenge before she'd be ready to give up her thankless job and go out into the world
8. It is a thankless task that of threading phrases or sentences to justify the inexplicable actions! If I did not even understand why I behaved that way; much less I could explain to a third party the cause of such behavior
9. Some people and animals are thankless
10. ferocious, rebellious, and are thankless for all that the zoo
11. Unfortunately, serving your country often proved to be a thankless task
12. But as a Maken aide put it, ‘It was a thankless task
13. Take heed, lest you weep under the ill-treatment of a thankless child, in the days when your eye is dim, and your natural force abated
14. And how thankless is this fear! None will really think better of you for it
15. And getting any unity or forming a pressure group is a thankless stab in the
16. How thankless a life waiting for perfection, when perfections are what life is always composed of
17. “Could it simply be that iWorlders are obese because they are thankless?” ED laughed at the truth of his own self-characterization
18. would be a thankless job
19. He used to sit in the early morning on my special seats in the garden, and strictly meditate the thankless muse when he ought to have been carting manure; and he made his fellow-apprentices unspeakably wretched by shouting extracts from Schiller at them across the intervening gooseberry bushes
20. Morrison, for their all too frequently thankless children
21. It is the nature of a Muslim not to be thankless, however when he does a favor, he seeks Allah's satisfaction
22. "If you give thanks, I will give you more, but if you are thankless, verily! My Punishment is indeed severe" (Surat Ibrahim, verse 7)
23. I would not have been in this thankless job of a baniya had I been the topper
24. It was the crappiest, most thankless job in Tamil Nadu
25. Perish man! How thankless he is!
26. I called her cruel, ungrateful, false, thankless, but above all covetous, since the wealth of my enemy had blinded the eyes of her affection, and turned it from me to transfer it to one to whom fortune had been more generous and liberal
27. Bush now steps into the thankless role of vice president with the same aplomb he brought to each of his previous jobs
28. “How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child, Abigail,” she said to the silent phone
29. It was not in vain that they passed their cheerless lives bending with aching shoulders over the thankless work that barely brought them bread
30. "O, look at her, look at her!" cried Miss Havisham, bitterly; "Look at her so hard and thankless, on the hearth where she was reared! Where I took her into this wretched breast when it was first bleeding from its stabs, and where I have lavished years of tenderness upon her!"
31. There have been sore mistakes; and my life has been a blind and thankless one; and I want forgiveness and direction far too much, to be bitter with you
32. Don't tell him, Joe, that I was thankless; don't tell him, Biddy, that I was ungenerous and unjust; only tell him that I honored you both, because you were both so good and true, and that, as your child, I said it would be natural to him to grow up a much better man than I did
33. It was a pretty thankless job
34. But as Heidi did not want to appear thankless, she replied sadly:
35. A political science professor at Brown, Darrell West, had given himself the thankless job of writing a completely unauthorized biography of me for an educational press
36. If the band had known the delight he took in counting us out as we failed, they might have thought better of their thankless task that night
37. fruitless, though it may have been thankless
38. It’s thankless but on we go
39. ’Tis a Mossy Bank, a Thankless Mouth, a Mustard Pott, a Mutton Roast, a Needle Case, a Nether Eye (to Mr
40. Everybody at all addicted to letter-writing, without having much to say, which will include a large proportion of the female world at least, must feel with Lady Bertram that she was out of luck in having such a capital piece of Mansfield news as the certainty of the Grants going to Bath, occur at a time when she could make no advantage of it, and will admit that it must have been very mortifying to her to see it fall to the share of her thankless son, and treated as concisely as possible at the end of a long letter, instead of having it to spread over the largest part of a page of her own
41. Of thankless friends the circle rose,
42. Moreover, although it was the most difficult and thankless task I had ever undertaken, I kept him away until I had seen him safely bestowed in a college dormitory
