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What is "unrewarded"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unrewarded
adjective
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
go unanswered/unnoticed/unrewarded etc
▪ And then it was dark and their entry into camp had gone unnoticed.
▪ Feeding soldiers is not a glamorous business; for the most part it is an administrative function that goes unnoticed.
▪ He had been humiliated Wednesday night and that could not go unanswered.
▪ It might have gone unnoticed except that the dictionary is quite unequivocal about it.
▪ That despite a troublesome physical problem: a wrist fracture incurred on his last tour that went unnoticed for months.
▪ The success of the tests had not gone unnoticed at the Air Ministry.
▪ This attempt to confuse the issue went unanswered, and Santa Anna continued his preparations to advance on the capital.
▪ Underscoring this notion is the fact that other diseases continue to go unnoticed under the very nose of modern medicine.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Many nurses in small community hospitals have been working as ENPs, unrecognised and unrewarded, for many years.
▪ Meanwhile the Emperor ordered that Aurangzeb should remain - unrewarded - on gruelling campaign against the empire's enemies in the Deccan.
▪ The frustration of unrewarded effort reinforces other creeping changes.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unrewarded

early 15c., from un- (1) "not" + past participle of reward (v.).

Wiktionary
unrewarded

a. Not rewarded

WordNet
unrewarded

adj. having acquired or gained nothing; "the returned from the negotiations empty-handed" [syn: empty-handed]

Usage examples of "unrewarded".

Whoever Shellduck was he certainly knew ways of disappearing with the loot leaving Big Tommy looking small and the rest of the gang bad-tempered and unrewarded.

The demurest of fuliginous intriguers argued that Brail stone was but doing the spiriting required of him, and would have to pay the penalty unrewarded, let him Italianize as much as he pleased.

Madame d'Urfe approved of everything, told the girl to take even greater care of the count, and promised that she should not go unrewarded.

The Stinnes of the KGB didn't come West — not as defectors, not as agents, and especially not as solitaries who'd spend the rest of their days unrewarded, unloved, and uninvolved with the job, acting out a role in which they had no belief.