All 6 Uses
resent
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This Side of Paradise
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- He was resentful against all those in authority over him, and this, combined with a lazy indifference toward his work, exasperated every master in school.†
Chpt 1.1 *resentful = full of anger or unhappiness at having to accept something not liked
- From the moment he realized this Amory resented social barriers as artificial distinctions made by the strong to bolster up their weak retainers and keep out the almost strong.†
Chpt 1.2resented = felt angry or unhappy about having to accept something not liked
- But the liturgy of Livingstone collars and dark ties fell on heedless ears; in fact D'Invilliers faintly resented his efforts; so Amory confined himself to calls once a week, and brought him occasionally to 12 Univee.†
Chpt 1.2
- She was accustomed to be thus followed by her desperate past, and it never failed to rouse in her the same feeling of resentment; yet—in a strange town it was an advantageous reputation.†
Chpt 1.2resentment = a feeling of anger or unhappiness at having to accept something not liked
- who could give such gold..." ** AMORY IS RESENTFUL Slowly and inevitably, yet with a sudden surge at the last, while Amory talked and dreamed, war rolled swiftly up the beach and washed the sands where Princeton played.†
Chpt 1.4resentful = full of anger or unhappiness at having to accept something not liked
- There were days when Amory resented that life had changed from an even progress along a road stretching ever in sight, with the scenery merging and blending, into a succession of quick, unrelated scenes—two years of sweat and blood, that sudden absurd instinct for paternity that Rosalind had stirred; the half-sensual, half-neurotic quality of this autumn with Eleanor.†
Chpt 2.3resented = felt angry or unhappy about having to accept something not liked
Definitions:
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(resent) to feel anger or unhappiness about something seen as unjust or something that creates jealousy
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Less commonly, resent is another spelling for re-sent; i.e., sent again.