All 33 Uses of
resent
in
The Fountainhead
- Some remained staring after him with sudden resentment.†
Chpt 1.1resentment = a feeling of anger or unhappiness at having to accept something not liked
- Roark smiled, without resentment or interest.†
Chpt 1.7
- He felt a sensual pleasure in giving orders to Roark; and he felt also a fury of resentment at Roark's passive compliance.†
Chpt 1.7
- He made a list of the architects whose work he resented least, in the order of their lesser evil, and he set out upon the search for a job, coldly, systematically, without anger or hope.†
Chpt 1.8resented = felt angry or unhappy about having to accept something not liked
- No. Keating wondered why he should experience that sickening feeling of resentment; why he had come here hoping to find the story untrue, hoping to find Roark uncertain and willing to surrender.†
Chpt 1.11resentment = a feeling of anger or unhappiness at having to accept something not liked
- He did not seem to resent the words.†
Chpt 1.13resent = feel angry or unhappy about having to accept something not liked
- And then it became easier, because he forgot the rest in a sweeping surge of resentment.†
Chpt 1.15resentment = a feeling of anger or unhappiness at having to accept something not liked
- In that one moment of silence, the guests felt no envy, no resentment, no malice.†
Chpt 1.15
- I don't see why you resent it, Peter!†
Chpt 2.4resent = feel angry or unhappy about having to accept something not liked
- He was suddenly aware of her body; not in desire or resentment, but just aware of its presence close to him, under her dress.†
Chpt 2.5resentment = a feeling of anger or unhappiness at having to accept something not liked
- It was not jealousy; she did not care whether the face was a man's or a woman's; she resented the approval as an impertinence.†
Chpt 2.8resented = felt angry or unhappy about having to accept something not liked
- She resented the cars in particular; she wished she could make them drive on to the next street.†
Chpt 2.8
- Later, he remembered it resentfully, and shrugged, and told himself that the best part of Dominique's help was her desire not to see him.†
Chpt 2.8resentfully = with a feeling of anger or unhappiness at having to accept something not liked
- Many of the architects, Athelstan Beasely in particular, commented resentfully on Howard Roark who had been invited and did not come.†
Chpt 2.11
- There were distinguished men and well-dressed, tight-lipped women; each woman seemed to feel an exclusive proprietorship of the art practiced by her escort, a monopoly guarded by resentful glances at the others.†
Chpt 2.12resentful = full of anger or unhappiness at having to accept something not liked
- I begin to resent it when people argue with me.†
Chpt 2.13resent = feel angry or unhappy about having to accept something not liked
- You mustn't resent it if I...You've never allowed me to hope that you could...that you...no, no, I won't say it...but what can you expect me to think?†
Chpt 2.14
- Ellsworth Toohey—who wished, above all, to avoid a quarrel with Wynand at that time—could not refrain from a feeling of resentment, because Wynand had not chosen him as a victim.†
Chpt 3.1resentment = a feeling of anger or unhappiness at having to accept something not liked
- "Pipe down, Sweetie-pie," said Toohey without resentment.†
Chpt 3.6
- He released her fingers, simply, without resentment.†
Chpt 3.7
- She saw no apology, no regret, no resentment as he looked at her.†
Chpt 3.8
- We're both in love with them, you and I. She thought she should resent his right to say it.†
Chpt 3.9resent = feel angry or unhappy about having to accept something not liked
- But she felt no resentment.†
Chpt 3.9resentment = a feeling of anger or unhappiness at having to accept something not liked
- But it was not a silence of resentment; it was the silence of an understanding too delicate to limit by words.†
Chpt 3.9
- Scarret saw nothing to resent in Toohey's manner.†
Chpt 4.2resent = feel angry or unhappy about having to accept something not liked
- Scarret had not noticed the change, it was too late to resent it—it had become normal to them both.†
Chpt 4.2 *
- He smiled; he remembered his resentment against the presence of guests in their house.†
Chpt 4.4resentment = a feeling of anger or unhappiness at having to accept something not liked
- You would dislike him—precisely because he's the type of man you should like.... Don't resent my obsession.†
Chpt 4.5resent = feel angry or unhappy about having to accept something not liked
- I don't resent it.†
Chpt 4.5
- They sat through long evenings together in the living room, saying nothing; not in resentment, but seeking reassurance from each other.†
Chpt 4.7resentment = a feeling of anger or unhappiness at having to accept something not liked
- Notice the malignant kind of resentment against any idea that propounds independence.†
Chpt 4.11
- He found no indifferent silence, half boredom, half resentment.†
Chpt 4.13
- They could drop the nameless resentment, the sense of insecurity which he aroused in most people.†
Chpt 4.18
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.