Resentment definition

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Indignation or ill will stemming from a feeling of having been wronged or offended.
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A feeling of anger or displeasure stemming from belief that one has been wronged by others or betrayed; indignation.
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A feeling of displeasure and indignation, from a sense of being injured or offended.
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Jeremy Taylor.

It is a greater wonder that so many of them die, with so little resentment of their danger.

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Resentment is a feeling of anger due to a real or imagined injury or offense.

An example of resentment is how someone may feel about illegal immigrants working, while they are unemployed.

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resentment
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Resentment Sentence Examples

  • Women looked at her in resentment as she pushed her way through.

  • The royal power, however, can only pardon when private resentment is appeased.

  • She withdrew from the king's society, and in spite of Clarendon's attempts to moderate her resentment, declared she would return to Portugal rather than consent to a base compliance.

  • The Holy See, much dependent at that time on its Swiss mercenaries in the pursuit of its secular ends, expressed no resentment on this occasion.

  • Apart from resentment against France on account of Tunisia there remained the question of the temporal power of the pope to turn the scale in favor of Austria and Germany.

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