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to feel anger or unhappiness at having to accept something — often something seen as unjust or something that creates jealousy
- THE FLOWER GIRL [resenting the reaction] He's no gentleman, he ain't, to interfere with a poor girl.Act 1 (64% in)
- Put that along with her resentment of Higgins's domineering superiority, and her mistrust of his coaxing cleverness in getting round her and evading her wrath when he had gone too far with his impetuous bullying, and you will see that Eliza's instinct had good grounds for warning her not to marry her Pygmalion.Act 5 (67% in)
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