resent
Example Sentences
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She supported equal rights and opportunities for women—but resented suggestions that stay-at-home moms were wasting their lives.
Gibby once joked that she resented her mother for abandoning the family.
From Literature
Despite waves of Carthaginian resistance and the increasing hostility of Roman elites, who resented his precocious record and thirst for glory, Scipio tightened the noose around Carthage.
He told me about Costa Rica, where he grew up, and about how he loved and resented Los Angeles for its contradictions.
From Los Angeles Times
I thought the problem was mine and I tried to tell Francis in the most even voice I could manage that I didn’t want to “trap” a man and have him always resent me.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
