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unrecompensed

a. Not recompensed; unrewarded.

Usage examples of "unrecompensed".

For two hours did that wretched man prosecute his unhallowed calling, unrecompensed, and going round and round the court, apparently under the impression that it was some other place, while Melons surveyed him from an adjoining fence with calm satisfaction.

In a typically Cervantine way, by telling a story, it paints a moving portrait of Cervantes as the outstanding Spanish writer of his time, clearly superior to all his contemporaries and yet tragically unrecompensed for his gifts to humanity and his service to his country.