All 23 Uses of
resent
in
Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis
- She resented his clumsiness.†
Chpt 6resented = felt angry or unhappy about having to accept something not liked
- She was relieved by the admiration with which the jeune fille Rita Simons looked at the steel buckles on her pumps; but she resented Mrs. Howland's tart demand, "Don't you find that new couch of yours is too broad to be practical?"†
Chpt 7
- I remember when a Latin teacher came here from Wellesley, they resented her broad A. Were sure it was affected.†
Chpt 8
- I resent it.†
Chpt 8resent = feel angry or unhappy about having to accept something not liked
- Perhaps they resent some things in you.†
Chpt 8
- Of course the illiterate ones resent your references to anything farther away than Minneapolis.†
Chpt 8
- I didn't want to speak of it but since you've brought it up: Chet Dashaway probably resents the fact that you got this new furniture down in the Cities instead of here.†
Chpt 8resents = feels angry or unhappy about having to accept something not liked
- She resented this outsider's knowledge of her shame.†
Chpt 9resented = felt angry or unhappy about having to accept something not liked
- She felt that these independent citizens, who had been taught that they belonged to a democracy, would resent her trying to play Lady Bountiful.†
Chpt 10resent = feel angry or unhappy about having to accept something not liked
- She was embarrassed rather than resentful.†
Chpt 10resentful = full of anger or unhappiness at having to accept something not liked
- And—and——Then there's that Ole Jenson the grocer, that thinks he's so plaguey smart, and I know he made up to a farmer's wife and——And this awful man Bjornstam that does chores, and Nat Hicks and——" There was, it seemed, no person in town who was not living a life of shame except Mrs. Bogart, and naturally she resented it.†
Chpt 15resented = felt angry or unhappy about having to accept something not liked
- Carol did not resent their criticisms, she didn't very much resent their sudden knowledge, so long as they let her make pictures.†
Chpt 18resent = feel angry or unhappy about having to accept something not liked
- Carol did not resent their criticisms, she didn't very much resent their sudden knowledge, so long as they let her make pictures.†
Chpt 18
- The first day she hated him for the tides of pain and hopeless fear he had caused; she resented his raw ugliness.†
Chpt 20resented = felt angry or unhappy about having to accept something not liked
- They were like the Sunday-afternoon mob starting at monkeys in the Zoo, poking fingers and making faces and giggling at the resentment of the more dignified race.†
Chpt 20resentment = a feeling of anger or unhappiness at having to accept something not liked
- Carol was a little resentful of the manner in which the men assumed that they did not care to fish.†
Chpt 23resentful = full of anger or unhappiness at having to accept something not liked
- Her ambition was to get to bed at nine; her strongest emotion was resentment over rising at half-past six to care for Hugh.†
Chpt 24resentment = a feeling of anger or unhappiness at having to accept something not liked
- Carol did not resent their assumption that she was too ignorant to be admitted to masculine mysteries.†
Chpt 24 *resent = feel angry or unhappy about having to accept something not liked
- He'd simply resent my butting in.†
Chpt 25
- She resented his gaping at their private rites.†
Chpt 28resented = felt angry or unhappy about having to accept something not liked
- Resentfully, "I am!"†
Chpt 28resentfully = with a feeling of anger or unhappiness at having to accept something not liked
- Carol sounded resentful.†
Chpt 31resentful = full of anger or unhappiness at having to accept something not liked
- For some reason which was totally mysterious to Carol, Maud Dyer seemed to resent her return.†
Chpt 39resent = feel angry or unhappy about having to accept something not liked
Definitions:
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(1)
(resent) to feel anger or unhappiness about something seen as unjust or something that creates jealousy
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Less commonly, resent is another spelling for re-sent; i.e., sent again.