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the art of receiving a kidney and complaining it didn't come gift-wrapped.
means the failure to feel or show thankfulness for a kindness, gift, or benefit received.
from From Latin ingratus, 'unthankful, unpleasant' — built from the negating prefix in- ('not') on gratus, 'pleasing, thankful.' That same gratus is the root of 'grateful,' 'gratitude,' and 'gratis,' so ingratitude is quite literally the un-doing of grace: a thing given freely (gratis) and met with no pleasure (gratus) returned. It reached English through Old French ingratitude in the late Middle Ages.
- shakespeare's worst
- He called it harsher than winter's wind in King Lear.
- darwin's note
- Even monkeys protest when peers get the better grape.
- latin root
- From ingratus, meaning unpleasing and unthankful both.
- survival quirk
- Brains forget favors faster than they forget grudges.
brutus and caesar — caesar's trusted friend stabbed him on the ides of march, 44 bce, prompting 'et tu, brute?'
salieri and mozart — court composer salieri's jealous hatred of mozart, immortalized in amadeus, despite mozart's earlier patronage