Definition & Meaning | English word THANKLESS
THANKLESS
Definitions of THANKLESS
- (of a task) not appreciated or rewarded
- (of a person) ungrateful or unappreciative
Number of letters
9
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using THANKLESS in a Sentence
- He later worked as an umpire in the Pacific Coast League from 1935 to 1938, quitting after finding it a thankless job and lonely life.
- It was for a long time a thankless post, for St Vincent was at once half incapacitated by ill-health and very arbitrary, while Horatio Nelson, who considered that Keith's appointment was a personal slight to himself, was peevish and insubordinate.
- This position was a very thankless and difficult one and Wallop appears to have undertaken it unwillingly.
- Gofer may also refer to a junior member of an organisation who generally receive the most vexing and thankless work.
- Linda Haynes, who was so exciting and authentically rural in Robert Mulligan's Nickel Ride, has that most thankless role of the adoring and impossibly patient woman who must babble on to fill the silences.
- Throughout the series, Kelso delights in tormenting Ted Buckland (Sam Lloyd), the hospital's milquetoast attorney, making him do thankless errands and busy work and denigrating him at every chance.
- After bemoaning his thankless situation of never getting credit for the truck driver's job well done, he continues to muse about his life: The trucker flirts with waitresses but never tips them; he winds up parked next to a smelly cattle truck (instead of a pink Mack with "pretty mudflaps" and chromed stacks); the trucker beats on the tires with an iron (the truck wishes aloud he'd have "a flat on the inside dual" to teach the driver a lesson); and the trucker will probably "take out that tape cartridge of Buck Owens and play him again" (instead of the artist that the truck apparently really enjoys, Merle Haggard).
- The song is about a factory worker's retirement day, where he laments about his years of long hours, exhausting, backbreaking and thankless work, and frustration in dealing with a micromanaging boss, Oney.
- Some police officers retaliate the civilians' sentiment, arguing that their job is thankless and underappreciated, or that the public does not understand the nuances and realities of policing.
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