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  • Winnie had found some pebbles at the base of the fence and, for lack of any other way to show how she felt, had flung one at the toad. ... and since every pebble missed its final mark, the toad continued to squat and grimace without so much as a twitch. Possibly it felt resentful.   (source)
    resentful = unhappy about unfair treatment
  • "I guess so," Meg said, but her happiness had fled and she was back in a morass of anger and resentment.   (source)
    resentment = feeling of anger or unhappiness at something unfair
  • We don't dare open our mouths at mealtime (except to slip in a bite of food), because no matter what we say, someone is bound to resent it or take it the wrong way.   (source)
    resent = feel angry or unhappy about something unfair
  • Redd entered the palace for the first time since she was a girl-the palace in which she'd been born and spent most of her young life, her palace-and all the hurt and resentment she'd tried to keep in check for so many years started to boil over.   (source)
    resentment = feelings of anger or unhappiness at unfairness
  • Blore said resentfully: "That brandy's all right."   (source)
    resentfully = with dislike for having been treated unjustly
  • All at once, as it seemed, and to her secret dismay, she found that the old resentment she had cherished against him was gone—gone just when she most needed its sustaining power.   (source)
    resentment = feelings of anger or unhappiness about unfairness
  • And even though the rules were set up by the Capitol, not the districts, certainly not Madge's family, it's hard not to resent those who don't have to sign up for tesserae.†   (source)
  • Or come to resent that I'd unwittingly led him to the Copper Key's hiding place?†   (source)
  • On the contrary, he looked resentful and sulky.†   (source)
  • Mostly I felt resentment at June's attitude.†   (source)
  • Chris was smiling at him in pure sweetness, which made Theo feel even guiltier about his resentment.†   (source)
  • She resented, too, the nurse, or the many nurses, who had tended my father in the various hospitals.†   (source)
  • You might not think so now, but when other boys are doing those things you're going to resent being stuck out here handling dogs morning and night.†   (source)
  • Perhaps they resented being stuck in Paris during the summer, a season when the French normally evacuate the capital.†   (source)
  • He wasn't even angry or resentful.†   (source)
  • About fifty miles from Moscow in Tuchkovo, the young Prince resumes his life; and for the most part, he does so without resentment, indignation, or nostalgia.†   (source)
  • Mamaw always resented the hillbilly stereotype—the idea that our people were a bunch of slobbering morons.†   (source)
  • The Slovak girls, who have been in there longest, resent the Hungarian girls, who refuse to accept that they aren't entitled to the same small perks the Slovaks have worked hard to negotiate.†   (source)
  • It was not her place to be resentful; she had lived a sheltered life.†   (source)
  • It can be tainted by power plays, jealousy, resentment, vindictiveness, and even abuse.†   (source)
  • Maybe it was stupid, but I resented him for going on that ocean voyage, for not having the guts to marry my mom.†   (source)
  • National Guard troops patrolled the communities, but their presence created more resentment, not to mention fresh targets for rock-toting kids.†   (source)
  • Probably exhausted from resenting me so much, I think with a wry smile.†   (source)
  • They seemed to resent the attention he was getting.†   (source)
  • My sister resents me for the fact that yet again I have overshadowed her—and because my injuries mean she can't properly hate me, like she has since we were children.†   (source)
  • With each disappointment, Rasheed had grown more remote and resentful Now nothing she did pleased him.†   (source)
  • Inside the armored car, while Sophie waited for Langdon to return, she could feel the weight of the rosewood box on her lap and resented it.†   (source)
  • Claude understands that he ought to resent them, but he admires their competence and manners, the clean efficiency with which they move.†   (source)
  • There is bound to be a certain resentment about his having killed that boy—that boy in particular, I mean.†   (source)
  • Until Cole could figure out what Garvey wanted, he resented the visits—he didn't need a friend or a baby-sitter.†   (source)
  • Hatsue felt she did him no favors by indulging his self-pity, and he resented her for this.†   (source)
  • Dell resented that he didn't get face time with the real bullies†   (source)
  • Any lingering resentment she might direct at them for the emotional uncertainties of her early life was doused by the constant cool water of their late middle age.†   (source)
  • I resented having to choose.†   (source)
  • His voice suddenly barbed with resentment, he said, "Well, you might feel like you're waking from a dream, but I feel like I'm having a nightmare.†   (source)
  • So I guess I could see how Lilly might kind of resent the fact that I missed today's taping.†   (source)
  • Many of the older surfers resented the sudden influx of "kooks" and "gremmies"— names given to pretenders, beginners, or wannabes—as well as the crowding of their surf spots and the intrusion into their simple, relaxed lifestyle.†   (source)
  • There was confusion in her expression, a mix of terror and awe—of shock; but also of a most familiar resentment.†   (source)
  • The bent old lady who required my arm to make her way from the television to the bathroom had been harboring hatred and resentment of her mother-in-law for sixty-five years.†   (source)
  • I wasn't sure what Jem resented most, but I took umbrage at Mrs. Dubose's assessment of the family's mental hygiene.†   (source)
  • When he finished, his eyes gleaming with resentment, the Champions sniggered, and Cain laughed the loudest.†   (source)
  • I'm scared you'll hate Karen forever ...or that you'll eventually begin to resent me for whatever choice I make tonight.†   (source)
  • It was just deserts, I suppose, for repeating my grandfather's stories at school but in those humiliating seconds I foresaw the moniker "fairy boy" trailing me for years and, rightly or not, I resented him for it.†   (source)
  • Arya stared at them with resentment, remembering the times she'd played at hoops with Bran and Jon and their baby brother Rickon.†   (source)
  • As we walked rapidly along I abruptly resented the bell and my West Point stride and hurrying and conforming.†   (source)
  • It only turns into disappointment, resentment, rage—all the things that make this life more difficult than it already is.†   (source)
  • Even as a little boy he had resented his father's failure and weakness, and even now he still remembered how he had suffered when a playmate had told him that his father was agbala.†   (source)
  • It does not take offense and is not resentful.†   (source)
  • I know my mother resented listening to Auntie Lin talk about Waverly when she had nothing to come back with.†   (source)
  • "I resent that!" said Kate.†   (source)
  • When Emily rose from the dining table to comfort the girl, she was surprised by a feeling of resentment.†   (source)
  • Ralph watched them, envious and resentful.†   (source)
  • She suspected that Judith had invented the irksome procedure just to keep her busy, and in a burst of resentment she poured in the remaining cupful all at once.†   (source)
  • I sat on the stool resentfully.†   (source)
  • Do you resent me for it?†   (source)
  • Resentment flared in Cinder's chest.†   (source)
  • He had always been a jealous man, so he greatly resented the attention his wife was suddenly getting.†   (source)
  • Now he felt he was back on home ground he suddenly began to resent having lumbered himself with this ignorant primitive who knew as much about the affairs of the Galaxy as an Ilford-based gnat knew about life in Peking.†   (source)
  • He was the kind of man—powerful of body, even-tempered, and not easily led—who cannot refuse support to partisans without drawing their deepest resentment.†   (source)
  • Leaving him in places he felt unloved—growing in him resentments he'll take years to understand-†   (source)
  • 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)
  • We all have a true resentment of authority.†   (source)
  • He tries to put the love he has always felt for Lourdes above the resentment he has harbored all these years.†   (source)
  • I resent that.†   (source)
  • I began to resent them both.†   (source)
  • The more that happened, the more we resented it—and each other.†   (source)
  • It'll make them resent you.†   (source)
  • At first these responses caused disappointment; maybe people were resentful, even, like he'd let them down.†   (source)
  • I'm sure I looked at her through our father's miserable eyes sometimes: just another petty woman resenting me.†   (source)
  • There was something hostile in the air, as if the trees resented their intrusion.†   (source)
  • She often spoke resentfully, almost contemptuously, of Mr. Grey.†   (source)
  • She looked unaccustomed to sitting down — like a constantly busy woman who resented having to stop, but whose body forced her to rest.†   (source)
  • I shrugged, said, "I think she resents me because Rufus likes me.†   (source)
  • Half-dressed and short of breath, they lay side by side resentful of one another and the skylight above them.†   (source)
  • Writers were among my acquaintances but, as in all times, we tended to mistrust and badmouth each other, secretly resenting the other's successes and finding fault in their work.†   (source)
  • He could have taken the easy route and resented my quick admittance into the Arcanum as many others did.†   (source)
  • I didn't mind when Hatsumomo looked at me with resentment and hatred because of the special treatment I now received.†   (source)
  • But I didn't resent her, no. She delivered my son gently into manhood from his boyhood, something a mother cannot possibly do.†   (source)
  • I was surprised by the flare of resentment, almost fury, that I felt — I didn't recognize what it was at first.†   (source)
  • He admires her, even resents her a little, for having moved to another country and made a separate life.†   (source)
  • In the way of those who receive miraculous aid, they are unappreciative and even a little resentful at having to provide for the old man.†   (source)
  • If Karr was partial to his fellow bass player, it was partly because of lingering resentment over his own experience as a Juilliard student.†   (source)
  • Instead of feeling grateful as I should have, I indulged myself with resentment: So I have to be a cripple and be on the verge of a cancer diagnosis to get a little help around here?†   (source)
  • Since Corrine's illness, all her work has fallen on me, and I must nurse her as well, which she resents.†   (source)
  • And, perhaps, was secure enough in her own standing not to resent Lieutenant Awn's having authority over her.†   (source)
  • Rage, or something equally dense and seething, was hanging from every chandelier, resentment woven into thick carpets padding the room, hatred flickering underneath every lampshade.†   (source)
  • Only Louis Sullivan: embittered, perfumed with alcohol, resenting who knew what, but not above coming by Burnham's office for a loan or to sell some painting or sketch.†   (source)
  • Ruth May just had a little tiny cup, which I knew she would resent because it made her seem more of a baby.†   (source)
  • Yeah, Hallorann thought, she'd been a goof-off and a sloven and the other girls had resented her, but Delores had had that little twinkle.†   (source)
  • Of all the lies you've told me, that's the one I resent the most.†   (source)
  • She felt great tenderness well up in her for him at that moment, as he waited for her reply, and she felt also a galloping terror, and she felt further something altogether more complicated, something that struck her as akin to resentment.†   (source)
  • At first I had deeply resented being left out, especially since all of us were making huge sacrifices that would benefit everyone in the future.†   (source)
  • A lot of resentment had built up between us.†   (source)
  • She let out a yelp of resentment.†   (source)
  • At the time, I resented the fact that it was always seen as my fault, that I was the one letting the side down.†   (source)
  • At Ole Miss there was money in the air; here there was just hostility, and the sights and sounds of resentment.†   (source)
  • He resented the taunts of his boyhood peers, but he never once complained to his father, knowing that this would be an evil thing to do.†   (source)
  • He resented our parents for arranging his marriage and his relationship with my parents suffered terribly.†   (source)
  • Da5id looks resentful.†   (source)
  • Alba did not resent his mocking nickname for her; in fact, on more than one occasion she had fantasized about seducing the stalwart professor.†   (source)
  • Angry, resentful men, regrouping all along the unmarked high border, preparing to take back the holy Muslim country they believed the infidel Americans had stolen from them and then presented to a new, elected government.†   (source)
  • He felt strongly that the newcomers didn't do their part to chip in to keep the center running, and resented that the place he'd worked hard to create was becoming so closely identified with refugees.†   (source)
  • Trying to remember how I felt in those days after Dad left, I'm not aware of going through stages of anger and resentment.†   (source)
  • I had come to resent him for always trying to separate me and my mom when I still had time with her.†   (source)
  • They end up resenting their kids and often not bonding with them, which means the kids don't feel safe and loved.†   (source)
  • However, she was going to learn very soon that her drastic decision was not so much the fruit of resentment as of nostalgia.†   (source)
  • We weren't, and there was a bit of resentment on our part.†   (source)
  • I resent and understand it at the same time.†   (source)
  • She'd just listened to the baby cry and resented it, resented the way its misery mirrored her own.†   (source)
  • Kynes took a deep breath to still his resentment against Halleck, who had briefed him on how to behave with the Duke and ducal heir.†   (source)
  • Part of me didn't see the point in sharing anything else with Vee, but another part of me felt resentful and confrontational.†   (source)
  • But it kind of feels nice to nurture her resentment, to foster it.†   (source)
  • "Hey, I resent that," Abby said, yanking her arm out of his grasp.†   (source)
  • A lot of people in the state resented the fact that television reporters were flooding in and sending back reports about how ignorant, poor, and helpless everybody was in West Virginia.†   (source)
  • He felt a resentment at that; he wanted his life to be his own, unencumbered by this shadow, this loss.†   (source)
  • Hey, I resent that!†   (source)
  • He didn't resent the fact that Tsezar felt squeamish about letting him finish the cigarette in the holder (some had clean mouths, some had foul) and he didn't burn his hardened fingers as they touched the glowing end.†   (source)
  • Certainly little or no resentment attaches to the College-on-the-Hill as an emblem of ruinous influence.†   (source)
  • They'd resent it.†   (source)
  • But the resentful silence into which her anger evolved was lasting much longer than Annie had expected.†   (source)
  • He deeply resented the pair, claiming that while he was doing the hard work — "grinding it out, grunting and sweating like a galley slave" — they were at home, reaping the rewards.†   (source)
  • This thought filled him with a hideous, unwilling resentment: he remembered Yves' hostile adventures with the girls of the Latin Quarter and St. Germain-des-Pres.†   (source)
  • The effect of these Orders will be to cause lasting hostility to Canada throughout the Orient, where racial discrimination is deeply resented.†   (source)
  • He became sullen, resentful, angry, and his memory seemed to be blown away.†   (source)
  • Over time the resentment against her has diminished a bit, but she is still seen as pushy and unfeminine.†   (source)
  • We spend Christmas eve like a normal family-eating and drinking and laughing together like we're a mom, dad, and uncle, plus a couple of kids, instead of a father with two children missing their mom and trying not to resent their "nanny," who has stolen their uncle's affection.†   (source)
  • Alex resents being told to do anything.†   (source)
  • I resented this winter curriculum, but it did bring Captain Horatio Hornblower sailing into my life.†   (source)
  • They looked up as Pol and I came in, and I could see that they all three expected me to resent more soap and water.†   (source)
  • Ch'idzigyaak noticed this, too, but her heart was filled with resentment at this unwanted intrusion, and she did not feel pity.†   (source)
  • She's got very good legs, I note resentfully.†   (source)
  • Kiswana still resented the stance her brother had taken in college.†   (source)
  • All right, you think they're fools, you despise them because their morals, their happiness is the source of your frustration and resentment.†   (source)
  • It was either resentment or what was left of my ulcer, or maybe both.†   (source)
  • My earliest memories in the swamps of Louisiana are of work—hard, backbreaking labor that as a young man I resented greatly.†   (source)
  • "I understand completely what you are trying to do," the Sicilian said finally, "and I want it quite clear that I resent your behavior.†   (source)
  • I glared at him, resenting the order.†   (source)
  • To Zayd, Cedric seems so authentic in his feelings, his faith, his resentments, his finely woven codes of right and wrong.†   (source)
  • Probably he had been listening, which Newt resented, but in the dim hall Jimmy looked too sick to be mad at.†   (source)
  • Himes clutched the pipe in his teeth till it clicked, and stared in helpless resentment at his mealer.†   (source)
  • She seems to resent that I've reacted badly to her pumping me full of forty thousand alien mechanisms.†   (source)
  • They were disillusioned, disoriented, and not a little resentful.†   (source)
  • It's amazing how small a resentful seven-year-old can make me feel.†   (source)
  • Billy resented that.†   (source)
  • The young kids openly resented their parents' dawdling in the Store and Uncle Willie would call them in and spread among them bits of sweet peanut patties that had been broken in shipping.†   (source)
  • You pointed out to me once, during an emotional argument, that the qualities I love in you—that drew me to you—also cause me to resent you: namely your unswerving commitment to the poor, your limitless schedule and your massive compassion for others.†   (source)
  • Though she had urged me for days to wear her daughter's clothes, when at last she saw them on me, there was so furious a look of resentment on her face, I was afraid that, as in the story of the shirt woven as a curse by an evil woman, Valerie's clothes would wrap around me and burn me.†   (source)
  • Researchers found that in the instances where the woman was denied an abortion, she often resented her baby and failed to provide it with a good home.†   (source)
  • 'Say, I don't like that,' Havermeyer exclaimed, rising resentfully with his hands clenched on his hips.†   (source)
  • She could see the strain of it, in my face maybe, maybe my eyes, could hear that old anger and lingering resentment on my lips.†   (source)
  • Still, Self, confidentially, in some little secret, hidden part of me, I still resent the kids a little because they're well and I'm not.†   (source)
  • When stubbornness was felt for the first time, it started a chain reaction, creating the feeling of resentment on the one hand, and alienation and loneliness on the other.†   (source)
  • Moody resented Reza's short memory, but rather than rely too heavily upon the prestige of his standing in the family, he decided to retreat.†   (source)
  • He struggled as if he was being boiled in anger and resentment, but he knew the rule as well as anyone.†   (source)
  • My interactions with him had grown unpleasant, as I resented the fact that I worked for the nastiest man in construction services, and he seemed to take perverse pleasure in treating me in as degrading a manner as he could devise.†   (source)
  • He must have sensed my resentment.†   (source)
  • Jake may have been revered by the blacks in Ford County, but he was still resented by many of the whites.†   (source)
  • The girls were very curious but I would not answer their questions and for the first time I resented the nuns' cheerful faces.†   (source)
  • Even Marina thinks her new husband is lazy and knows he resents taking orders.†   (source)
  • All the "great secrets" under the mountains had turned out to be just empty night: there was nothing more to find out, nothing worth doing, only nasty furtive eating and resentful remembering.†   (source)
  • Most people resented this; they griped and grumbled.†   (source)
  • They're no trouble themselves, but Nelthilta's taken up with them and it seems to have made her cheeky and resentful: sort of thing you saw just now.†   (source)
  • He didn't resent the fact that as captain, Aven had to consult with John about the navigation.†   (source)
  • Everybody has resentments, everybody has anger.†   (source)
  • "I resent that remark," Gains said.†   (source)
  • Resentment and hurt left over from a previous case wouldn't completely fade.†   (source)
  • Some grinned with disbelief at the display, but others appeared sullen and almost resentful.†   (source)
  • Wells exhaled, willing his resentment to drain away.†   (source)
  • Furthermore, why should I resent anyone wanting to share Jesus with someone as shallow as Josh?†   (source)
  • I really resented him wanting to please all that bad.†   (source)
  • I work off the resentment at having to do this by realizing that it isn't any more work for me, actually, than the other way.†   (source)
  • I would now have my real interview with Dr. Bledsoe, and I recalled Barbee's address with resentment.†   (source)
  • Only we were your pawns too, and as a responsible member of the Security Council, I resent it deeply.†   (source)
  • The other tribes of the realms grew disenchanted and resentful.†   (source)
  • While I appreciated Dr. Kerr's position and his willingness to give me another chance, I resented his absolute power over my fate.†   (source)
  • I've never resented that young law student for what she did.†   (source)
  • Midnight alarums made Peace Dragoons on passport watch much taken by yawning and more bad-tempered, which produced more clashes with Loonies and still greater resentment both ways—so Simon increased pressure.†   (source)
  • But when she holds her son's face in her hands, Celia sees only an opaque resentment.†   (source)
  • In another mile she would be able to distinguish the individual flavors of resentments, petty victories, rejections, and angry little skirmishes for dominance.†   (source)
  • In fact, though he was short and stooped, he was neither a hunchback nor a dwarf, but could look the part of both, depending upon his state of agitation and the energy of his resentment.†   (source)
  • She was incapable of love for any object not of her own choice and she resented anyone's demand for it.†   (source)
  • Now, when I looked around the women's chamber, I saw jealousy and smoldering resentment, but what could the other women do but wait and see if another son came out of my body?†   (source)
  • Nor was she prepared for her own sense of numb resentment.†   (source)
  • They wind up hating each other, resenting each other and finally they get a divorce.†   (source)
  • I had lived too long with that expectation to feel the resentment that embittered him.†   (source)
  • It didn't break me, but it left me petrified, powerless, and resentful.†   (source)
  • From the first, he never resented any tasks that fell to him; to his surprise, he found within himself a tenderness that was a counterweight to the omnipresent anger that he directed at God but that he inadequately relieved on those unlucky boys with whom he periodically picked fights.†   (source)
  • I feel a mixture of relief and resentment.†   (source)
  • He couldn't tell if their obvious resentment at being ordered around by a woman was also masking something else, like a lie.†   (source)
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