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  • There are days, many of them, when I resent the size of my unbounded set.  (source)
    resent = feel anger or unhappiness at something unfair
  • Besides the fact that a number of white folks around here resent this land you've got and your independent attitude, there's Harlan Granger.  (source)
    resent = feel angry or unhappy about something unfair
  • Doc Hawthorn did not resent Sam.  (source)
    resent = feel jealous about unfairness
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  • Mostly I felt resentment at June's attitude.  (source)
    resentment = a feeling of anger or unhappiness at having to accept something not liked
  • Perhaps they resented being stuck in Paris during the summer, a season when the French normally evacuate the capital.†  (source)
    resented = felt angry or unhappy about having to accept something not liked
  • I had begun to conceive of what my education might cost me, and I had begun to resent it.  (source)
    resent = feel angry or unhappy with something unfair
  • On the contrary, he looked resentful and sulky.†  (source)
    resentful = full of anger or unhappiness at having to accept something not liked
  • The constable stood up. "What did you hit him for?" he wheezed resentfully.  (source)
    resentfully = unhappy about something unfair
  • Resenting this supposition, which had never occurred to me, I looked away from him and out the window, at his depressing view of the white brick building across the street.†  (source)
    Resenting = feeling angry or unhappy about having to accept something not liked
  • Leaving him in places he felt unloved—growing in him resentments he'll take years to understand-†  (source)
    resentments = things about which one feels angry or unhappy due to having to accept them
  • Of course the pawnbroker is lying, but he resents the accusation.  (source)
    resents = feels angry or unhappy
  • "One would think you doubted my honesty," he said, with a laugh, though his colour rose in a quick resentfulness frequent with him.†  (source)
    resentfulness = the quality of feeling angry or unhappy about having to accept something not liked
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
  • He'd keep it to himself, harboring his resentment, letting the bad feelings build and build.  (source)
    resentment = feelings of anger or unhappiness about unfairness
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