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Definition
to feel anger or unhappiness at having to accept something — often something seen as unjust or something that creates jealousy
- But see, comrade, any benefits that you give him, naturally others are resenting it.Chapter 14 (57% in)
- It wasn't clear where he'd got this information from, or how he knew these things, but for years the twins harbored a faint resentment against their parents for having diddled them out of a lifetime of free bus rides.Chapter 1 (8% in)
- Past the resentful older houses tinged green with envy, cowering in their private driveways among their private rubber trees.Chapter 1 (36% in)
- Baby Kochamma resented Ammu, because she saw her quarreling with a fate that she, Baby Kochamma herself, felt she had graciously accepted.Chapter 2 (21% in)
- He had always been a jealous man, so he greatly resented the attention his wife was suddenly getting.Chapter 2 (25% in)
- It caused a great deal of resentment among the other Touchable factory workers because, according to them, Paravans were not meant to be carpenters.Chapter 2 (82% in)
- He knew that all the other Touchable workers in the factory resented Velutha for ancient reasons of their own.Chapter 4 (94% in)
- When Sophie Mol walked into the Arrivals Lounge, Rahel, overcome by excitement and resentment, pinched Estha hard.Chapter 6 (31% in)
- It wasn't just her working-class background Mammachi resented.Chapter 8 (15% in)
There are no more uses of "resent" in The God of Small Things.
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