thanklessness

They know the thanklessness of their task and the controversies it often creates.

He swallowed, gripped by a sudden bitterness at the thanklessness of his task.

The thanklessness of trying to outguess history seems to get even Mr. Spinrad down after a while.

Her thanklessness added insult to injury!

Thanklessness is a terrible thing.

No one notices him, or the lawn, and I wonder if he ever reflects on the endlessness and thanklessness of his task.

In another, Harry Groener, who portrays the men in both women's lives, does a solo about the thanklessness of his role.

I had never been struck at so keenly, for my thanklessness to Joe, as through the brazen impostor Pumblechook.

Now Ralph was young and could not abide the blame of thanklessness; so he said, "Nay, nay, fellow, go we on together to the Flower de Luce."

What crushed her was not the thanklessness of domestic life - or Burne-Jones's cheerful dismissal of her own artistic talents - but her exclusion from company once her first child was born.