Ingratitude - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: ingratitudeingratitude
ingratitude : forgetfulness of or lack of appreciation for kindness or esp. a gift received NOTE: Under the civil law of Louisiana, a gift may be revoked on the ground of ingratitude if the recipient of the gift tries to kill the person who gave the gift, is guilty of cruelly mistreating or injuring the giver, or refuses the giver food when it is needed. ...
Inflict
To give cause or produce by striking or as if by striking to apply forcibly to lay or impose to send to cause to bear feel or suffer as to inflict blows to inflict a wound with a dagger to inflict severe pain by ingratitude to inflict punishment on an offender to inflict the penalty of death on a criminal...
Ingratitude
Lack of gratitude insensibility to forgetfulness of or ill return for kindness or favors received unthankfulness ungratefulness...
Ingrates
Ingrates, means ungrateful; (of conduct) marked by ingratitude. Ungrateful acts or words (such as spiteful comments from a freedom toward a former master) could form the basis for a return to a prior inferior status, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 786....
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