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thanklessness

/thangk-lis/US // ˈθæŋk lɪs //UK // (ˈθæŋklɪs) //

无力感,不谢,无效,不谢性

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : not likely to be appreciated or rewarded; unappreciated: a thankless job.
    • : not feeling or expressing gratitude or appreciation; ungrateful: a thankless child.

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Examples

  • That quality—exercised in regular trips around TfL’s network to meet Londoners—has powered him through a career in the often thankless task of being the face of city transit systems.

  • The thankless, high-risk work EMTs and paramedics do is often called a “calling” because it makes no sense.

  • Digital ads dollars rule the decision making process, social media teams are stretched thin and minimal support often makes for a thankless job, according to social media managers.

  • Then there was Veteran’s Affairs, but that’s the dead-end of Cabinet positions — a thankless and also impossible job.

  • We have a thankless job that no one understands and they don’t think they should pay us very well for.

  • Law-enforcement agencies at all levels of government provide a valuable and often thankless public service in their communities.

  • But it serves no one to perpetuate the idea that parenting is supposed to be an agonizing and thankless slog.

  • Hosting the show really is the most thankless—and one of the most trying—jobs in showbiz, but DeGeneres did a helluva job.

  • Ryan's job is thankless, although he is thanked a lot by others.

  • Murmelstein was stuck with a thankless and impossible job, caught between the hammer and the anvil, as he tells us.

  • The imperial army had to be disbanded—a most unpopular and thankless task, requiring both tact and firmness.

  • What could she be about when, with London a thankless void, she was of course not paying visits?

  • His heart swells, and he longs to embrace the thankless Church to which he writes.

  • But he thought of this taciturn savage, how he had capped thankless service with rarest sacrifice.

  • But, if there is a thankless task, it is that of examining the erect image in children from two to three years of age.