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  • "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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Blore said resentfully: "That brandy's all right."   (source)
    resentfully = with dislike for having been treated unjustly
  • 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)
  • On the contrary, he looked resentful and sulky.†   (source)
  • She resented my mother?†   (source)
  • Theo resented Hoo's slur on the family business.†   (source)
  • Endured, and resented.†   (source)
  • She'd convinced herself that Edgar's resentment toward Claude would lessen.†   (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)
  • With envy, perhaps, or wide-eyed wonder, but not resentment.†   (source)
  • They will resent you.†   (source)
  • For my entire life, I'd harbored resentment at the world.†   (source)
  • The established residents eye the newcomers with resentment.†   (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)
  • I glanced at my roommate, burning with resentment.†   (source)
  • Or come to resent that I'd unwittingly led him to the Copper Key's hiding place?†   (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)
  • They seemed to resent the attention he was getting.†   (source)
  • Probably exhausted from resenting me so much, I think with a wry smile.†   (source)
  • But Laila has decided that she will not be crippled by resentment.†   (source)
  • Years of resentment began to ooze out of me.†   (source)
  • Cole resented the cabin and all this gear.†   (source)
  • I resented having to choose.†   (source)
  • You had no particular resentment or dislike for him, no anger at him?†   (source)
  • Anger, resentment, bitterness.†   (source)
  • Because they are afraid, and perhaps also resentful of you, for what you have done.†   (source)
  • Resentful frustration edged his tone.†   (source)
  • When he finished, his eyes gleaming with resentment, the Champions sniggered, and Cain laughed the loudest.†   (source)
  • When I got a little older, I resented it—sometimes.†   (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)
  • Mayella jerked her head resentfully at the bench.†   (source)
  • Though in Werner's weaker moments, he resents those same qualities in his sister.†   (source)
  • Dell resented that he didn't get face time with the real bullies.†   (source)
  • The old man resented us, or we made him nervous, or maybe he was as sick as he looked.†   (source)
  • I sat on the stool resentfully.†   (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)
  • He caught a whiff of brandy and resented them more.†   (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)
  • I know my mother resented listening to Auntie Lin talk about Waverly when she had nothing to come back with.†   (source)
  • It only turns into disappointment, resentment, rage—all the things that make this life more difficult than it already is.†   (source)
  • But it kind of feels nice to nurture her resentment, to foster it.†   (source)
  • Do you resent me for it?†   (source)
  • I had come to resent him for always trying to separate me and my mom when I still had time with her.†   (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)
  • Who were these common resentful farmers to dispute his royal right?†   (source)
  • All those trips to Calcutta he'd once resented —how could they have been enough?†   (source)
  • We all have a true resentment of authority.†   (source)
  • Bran stared resentfully at the sweating boys below.†   (source)
  • It's amazing how small a resentful seven-year-old can make me feel.†   (source)
  • Resentment flared in Cinder's chest.†   (source)
  • _" Ralph watched them, envious and resentful.†   (source)
  • I shrugged, said, "I think she resents me because Rufus likes me.†   (source)
  • ABIGAIL, with an edge of resentment: Why, I am sure it is, sir.†   (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)
  • It also caused resentment.†   (source)
  • "For the past year I've done nothing but hate and resent Les for what she did.†   (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)
  • I resent that.†   (source)
  • Nor was she prepared for her own sense of numb resentment.†   (source)
  • Leaving him in places he felt unloved—growing in him resentments he'll take years to understand-†   (source)
  • All of them feel the resentment.†   (source)
  • But still I resent it.†   (source)
  • So I guess I could see how Lilly might kind of resent the fact that I missed today's taping.†   (source)
  • Resentment, a gray, sullen wave of it, pushed up his throat.†   (source)
  • My resentment began to grow as well.†   (source)
  • I began to resent them both.†   (source)
  • We weren't, and there was a bit of resentment on our part.†   (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)
  • There was something hostile in the air, as if the trees resented their intrusion.†   (source)
  • A lot of resentment had built up between us.†   (source)
  • She pampered my ungrateful children, and resented us utterly.†   (source)
  • "I resent that!" said Kate.†   (source)
  • It'll make them resent you."†   (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)
  • I flinched back from the resentment in his voice.†   (source)
  • No, I said, it isn't resentment, exactly.†   (source)
  • At Ole Miss there was money in the air; here there was just hostility, and the sights and sounds of resentment.†   (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)
  • Resentment began to stain the continuing news coverage of her visit.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • She often spoke resentfully, almost contemptuously, of Mr. Grey.†   (source)
  • No. He resented the children she had, that's what.†   (source)
  • "Of all the lies you've told me, that's the one I resent the most."†   (source)
  • She knew the people would resent her if she did.†   (source)
  • Da5id looks resentful.†   (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)
  • The more that happened, the more we resented it—and each other.†   (source)
  • She'd just listened to the baby cry and resented it, resented the way its misery mirrored her own.†   (source)
  • I felt large and selfless, above resentment.†   (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)
  • It wasn't just her working-class background Mammachi resented.†   (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)
  • Women are bound to resent it.†   (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)
  • Suffer and resent and rage.†   (source)
  • For the first time he did not concern himself with her, and she resented the change.†   (source)
  • Wells exhaled, willing his resentment to drain away.†   (source)
  • His mind seethed with resentment.†   (source)
  • In a few instances resentment flashed across my mother's face.†   (source)
  • We climb slowly upward and the resentment leaves.†   (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)
  • That was how the resentment started.†   (source)
  • Hatsue felt she did him no favors by indulging his self-pity, and he resented her for this.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • "Hey, I resent that," Abby said, yanking her arm out of his grasp.†   (source)
  • She thought he had never experienced true depression, a freedom so enviable she almost resented it.†   (source)
  • Most people resented this; they griped and grumbled.†   (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)
  • He didn't begrudge the tobacco; he resented the interruption in his chain of thought.†   (source)
  • Very likely resentment.†   (source)
  • I guess Dick resented it, not getting to college.†   (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)
  • Alex resents being told to do anything.†   (source)
  • Then Rufus resented all of them.†   (source)
  • Ch'idzigyaak noticed this, too, but her heart was filled with resentment at this unwanted intrusion, and she did not feel pity.†   (source)
  • They'd resent it.†   (source)
  • We knew the authorities had long resented and feared the influence we had on younger prisoners.†   (source)
  • He became sullen, resentful, angry, and his memory seemed to be blown away.†   (source)
  • But resentments had built up on Luma's part.†   (source)
  • His love for her was so deeply woven with resentment that he could not untangle the two.†   (source)
  • At any rate, he showed neither jealousy nor resentment.†   (source)
  • Hey, I resent that!†   (source)
  • His eyes, like his voice, were resentful, yet eager.†   (source)
  • My earliest memories in the swamps of Louisiana are of work—hard, backbreaking labor that as a young man I resented greatly.†   (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)
  • In the past, this familiar exchange made me feel resentful.†   (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)
  • It was a Saturday, and he resented being at work.†   (source)
  • Not only that, but I began to resent the whole idea.†   (source)
  • Dish resented the question.†   (source)
  • Over time the resentment against her has diminished a bit, but she is still seen as pushy and unfeminine.†   (source)
  • I babysat when my brothers or sisters needed to go to work or run errands, and I resented it.†   (source)
  • In their shoes he would've felt resentment too.†   (source)
  • I did, but I resented it.†   (source)
  • I could sense a huge tide of resentment developing against the Gang of Four.†   (source)
  • She seems to resent that I've reacted badly to her pumping me full of forty thousand alien mechanisms.†   (source)
  • I glared at him, resenting the order.†   (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)
  • I feel a mixture of relief and resentment.†   (source)
  • I told Bilbo often that such rings were better left unused; but he resented it, and soon got angry.†   (source)
  • He didn't resent the fact that as captain, Aven had to consult with John about the navigation.†   (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 must have sensed my resentment.†   (source)
  • It was a mixture of fear and resentful admiration.†   (source)
  • I more than resent it, sir.†   (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)
  • He protested with a resentful bark.†   (source)
  • Students talk a while about their mixture of pride and resentment.†   (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)
  • She's got very good legs, I note resentfully.†   (source)
  • The old resentments made his jaw tighten.†   (source)
  • "I resent that remark," Gains said.†   (source)
  • I resent that.†   (source)
  • It didn't break me, but it left me petrified, powerless, and resentful.†   (source)
  • You resent the treaty?†   (source)
  • I watched them with a sudden resentment.†   (source)
  • He struggled as if he was being boiled in anger and resentment, but he knew the rule as well as anyone.†   (source)
  • They were disillusioned, disoriented, and not a little resentful.†   (source)
  • He strokes their anger, their resentment, like a mean cat.†   (source)
  • Resent don't count.†   (source)
  • She feared Annie might make a fuss or resent it or try and make the decision for her.†   (source)
  • But when she holds her son's face in her hands, Celia sees only an opaque resentment.†   (source)
  • He resents the punishment, resents it deeply.†   (source)
  • Kiswana still resented the stance her brother had taken in college.†   (source)
  • The men resent it, too.†   (source)
  • Some grinned with disbelief at the display, but others appeared sullen and almost resentful.†   (source)
  • Billy resented that.†   (source)
  • Even Marina thinks her new husband is lazy and knows he resents taking orders.†   (source)
  • I resent your saying it.†   (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)
  • I've never resented that young law student for what she did.†   (source)
  • I resented that.†   (source)
  • They wind up hating each other, resenting each other and finally they get a divorce.†   (source)
  • I resent Mr. McLean's implication that he is more honorable because he happened to win a popularity contest among cadets, General.†   (source)
  • The other tribes of the realms grew disenchanted and resentful.†   (source)
  • Furthermore, why should I resent anyone wanting to share Jesus with someone as shallow as Josh?†   (source)
  • No. I resent you.†   (source)
  • She hoped they wouldn't resent it too much.†   (source)
  • Everybody has resentments, everybody has anger.†   (source)
  • Did he resent them for shipping him off?†   (source)
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