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• n  a person who shows no gratitude

• The French President was not a total ingrate.
• William Howard Taft, the last American president with facial hair, famously said that "every time I make an appointment, I create nine enemies and one ingrate.
• William Howard Taft, the last American president with facial hair, famously said that "every time I make an appointment, I create nine enemies and one ingrate.

• thankless wretch
• ungrateful person

News & Articles

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• Porky and Buddy Pet Health – Help! My Puppy Destroys His Toys
  My new adopted pal, Bubba, a black lab mix, is about nine months old now and he is perfect in every way except one. He is an ingrate! No, really. I keep buying him toys and he keeps destroying them - all of them. It is so frustrating! I would really like to be able to play with him all the time, fetch, or tug of war, or whatever. Continue reading ? The post Porky and Buddy Pet Health – Help! My ...
  July 14, 2013 - Oswego County Today

Quotes

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• Guillermo del Toro in San Bernardino Sun
  I'd be an ingrate if I weren't very pleased with three Academy Awards and over $32 million at the US box office,said del Toro, whose Gothic adult fairy tale was recently screened at the White House.
• Olusegun Obasanjo in THISDAY
  Obasanjo described him as "an ingrate, a bastard and foolish person who because of the deceit of the people who said he is popular put himself into trouble".
• Bob Dole in Politico
  That would have taken integrity and courage but then you would have had credibility and your complaints could have been aired objectively,Dole concludes. "You're a hot ticket now but don't you, deep down, feel like a total ingrate?"