thankless

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.