unthanked en · ADJ · etymology 1
Etymology
From un- + thanked.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Not having been thanked.
In the leading article in this week's Publishers' Weekly a poet utters the complaints and defines the encouragements to be found in a materialistic world by its unthanked songsters.
1932 April 9, Isidor Schneider, “Hard Luck Of Poets”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 11 Feb 2026: