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ingrates

ingrates is the plural of ingrate.

Meaning of ingrate

Noun

ingrate (plural ingrates)

  1. An ungrateful or unpleasant person.
    • But Mr Pecksniff, dismissing all ephemeral considerations of social pleasure and enjoyment, concentrated his meditations on the one great virtuous purpose before him, of casting out that ingrate and deceiver, whose presence yet troubled his domestic hearth, and was a sacrilege upon the altars of...1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC

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Questions about ingrates

What is ingrates the plural of?
Ingrates is the plural of ingrate.

Words near ingrates in the dictionary

  1. ingrateful
  2. ingratefull
  3. ingratefully
  4. ingratefulness
  5. ingrately
  6. ingrates
  7. ingratiate
  8. ingratiated
  9. ingratiates
  10. ingratiating
  11. ingratiatingly

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