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• a  not feeling or showing gratitude
  How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is / To have a thankless child!"- Shakespeare
• s  not likely to be rewarded
  grading papers is a thankless task

• He's polite, affable and willing to take on thankless tasks, such as his current role overseeing the construction of a visitors center on Capitol Hill.
• Raising environmental concerns in Norway, where oil and gas account for about a quarter of GDP and fund a vast national pension system, might seem like a thankless job.
• Raising environmental concerns in Norway, where oil and gas account for about a quarter of GDP and fund a vast national pension system, might seem like a thankless job.

• ungrateful
• unthankful
• unappreciated
• ungratifying

• grateful

News & Articles

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• Colts are looking at 4 players and 1,300 pounds to fill key nose tackle position
  It can be a thankless job, but somebody's got to do it and do it at a high level if Chuck Pagano's 3-4 defense is going to be effective.
  June 13, 2013 - The Indianapolis Star
• A Theater That Plays Only Pirated Movies And TV Shows
  The Pirate Cinema brings peer-to-peer file sharing to the big screen in real time. Though their work is dubious at best, ethically speaking, in terms of sheer day-in, day-out dedication, the people who package illegal copies of new movies and TV shows deserve a congressional medal. In a largely thankless (and presumably extracurricular) job, these shadowy individuals work with astonishing speed ...
  June 13, 2013 - Fast Company Magazine
• Dunkin' Donuts To Recognize Employee Who Calmly Dealt With Customer Freakout
  Whoever says that working in food services is a thankless career will have a hard time believing this.
  June 12, 2013 - The Huffington Post

Quotes

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• Katherine Heigl in Business Wire (press release)
  I have tremendous respect for women in the healthcare industry,said Katherine Heigl. "I know that it is often a difficult and thankless job. I wanted to create a line of scrubs that would allow women to infuse some of their personality and...
• Andrew Motion in Monsters and Critics.com
  Speaking to an audience at the Ealing Arts Festival in West London, Andrew said: "The job has been incredibly difficult and entirely thankless. It has been very, very damaging to my writing. In fact, I dried up completely about five years ago and...