Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Disloyal; Ungrateful: Describes a person who lacks loyalty or fails to show gratitude, often betraying trust or kindness received. This term is considered archaic in modern Vietnamese.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Kẻ vô nghì ấy đã phản bội người từng cứu mạng mình. (That disloyal/ungrateful person betrayed the one who once saved his life.)
  • Hành động của hắn thật là vô nghì. (His actions are truly ungrateful/disloyal.)

Advanced Usage

• The term "vô nghì" is primarily found in classical literature, historical texts, or formal, moralistic discourse. Its use in contemporary spoken Vietnamese is very rare.

Variants and Related Words

• Vô ơn (adj): Ungrateful. This is the modern and far more common synonym.
  • Đừng trở thành kẻ vô ơn. (Don't become an ungrateful person.)

Synonyms

• Ungrateful: Not feeling or showing gratitude.
• Disloyal: Failing to be loyal to a person, country, or organization; unfaithful.
• Thankless: (Of a person or action) Not expressing or feeling gratitude.

Related Idioms

• Ăn cháo đá bát: (Lit: To eat the porridge and kick the bowl) To bite the hand that feeds you; to be ungrateful to a benefactor.
  • Hắn ta đúng là loại người ăn cháo đá bát. (He is truly the type to bite the hand that feeds him.)