unappreciatively means without showing appreciation. Ungratefully. It carries an Arena rating of 1345, earned across 3 head-to-head judged battles.
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Why “unappreciatively” is a great word
In a manner that does not show gratitude or recognition of value. From un- ("not") + appreciative (from appreciate, from Late Latin appretiare "to set a price on, appraise," from Latin ad- "to" + pretium "price") + -ly (adverb-forming suffix), first recorded in 1834. Unlike "ungratefully," which implies a specific moral failure in returning thanks, or "critically," which involves a process of active judgment, "unappreciatively" denotes a passive, often thoughtless failure to acknowledge worth. It is the sound of a gift being set aside unopened, the gesture of a fine meal consumed in sullen silence, or the act of walking through a garden in full bloom while staring only at the ground—the quiet, corrosive habit of taking the world as owed, a slow erosion not through malice but through unseeing passage.
Etymology
From unappreciative + -ly.
adv
- Without showing appreciation. Ungratefullye.g.“Their peculiar ideas, instead of being sympathetically drawn from them, have been ruthlessly and unappreciatively crushed by the superior knowledge and arrogance of the white race.” — 1905. Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, Article by John Davis, Page 223
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