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Meanings of thankless in anglès

portuguès
mal-agradecido

Not feeling or showing gratitude.

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mal-agradecido

Not likely to be rewarded.

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Usage of thankless in anglès
1
The second Mrs de Winter is, in many ways, a thankless part.
The Irish Times
2
Just one more thankless task and you can start working murders again.
Back on murder
3
We are aware at some level that refereeing is a thankless task.
The Irish Times
4
Making a tweet count is a thankless task, but it's not impossible.
The Guardian
5
Setting can often be a thankless job, but it should not be.
Climbing Magazine
6
After leaving school, he took whatever was going: thankless bit-parts, singing telegrams.
The Guardian
7
He was an odd choice for the thankless task of debunking Lawrence.
Hero: the life and legend of lawrence of arabia
8
Self-management by any board of directors can be difficult, unpaid and thankless.
The Irish Times
9
After a while he raised his eyes and said: Insatiable and thankless.
Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero
10
It was a thankless job, and I got very cross over it.
Mr. Standfast
11
It had been a thankless duty he had performed with grim loyalty.
Embrace the darkness
12
But as it is a heartless, so is it a thankless office.
White Jacket; Or, The World on a Man-of-War
13
For Deborah was crying thankless tears, according to the fashion of women.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861 / A Magazin...
14
This most thankless duty was performed by them with fidelity and care.
History of the Gatling Gun Detachment, Fifth Army Corps, at Sant...
15
You have set my thankless service above your life, above your honor.
Chivalry: Dizain des Reines
16
And Link, his son, was left to carry on the thankless task.
His Dog
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