Resentment meaning

rĭ-zĕnt'mənt
A feeling of anger or displeasure stemming from belief that one has been wronged by others or betrayed; indignation.
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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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Indignation or ill will stemming from a feeling of having been wronged or offended.
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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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Origin of resentment

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.

  • There was great resentment throughout Italy, and in answer to the popes request Charles Albert declared that he was with him in everything, while from South America Giuseppe Garibaldi wrote to offer his services to Hi~ Holiness.

  • 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.

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