resent

Nancy did, which Debbie loved hearing about but didn’t resent.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 23, 2026

The more we fear something, the more we come to quietly resent it.

From MarketWatch ● May 12, 2026

"I think a lot of country folk just want to be left alone to breed their sheep and hang their moles and resent people who come to the countryside with different views," he says.

From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2026

The churn is especially pronounced in small firms, where favoritism is hard to hide and easy to resent.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 28, 2026

It had been kind to me in the days of my poverty and it did not resent my temporary solvency.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

He has been at the teaching job he resents and she has been frantically preparing for the dinner party she may not have told him about.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026

"As she said in her own memoir, she resents that others defined her the first time around," Jellison told the BBC.

From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2026

Because there’s one thing worse than hunkering down during a snowstorm — and that’s doing so with someone who resents your spending.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 25, 2026

He cites Dambisa Moyo, the Zambian-born economist and aid critic, who resents the fact that aid policy has, as she puts it, “been left to musicians who reside outside Africa.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025

He admires her, even resents her a little, for having moved to another country and made a separate life.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

By the end, the dressing room had fractured into three camps: a small group of loyalists, a larger group who actively resented him, and a numb majority who had simply stopped caring.

From BBC ● May 13, 2026

He’s long resented her inability to contain the frenzy surrounding the Jeffrey Epstein files.

From Slate ● Apr. 4, 2026

I was wearing my best armor: a black dress that accentuated my curves, a striped bolero to cover the arms I’ve resented for years and black platform sandals displaying ruby toes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2026

The naughty boys who played on bomb sites resented the legend of heroism but took pride in capturing the flag.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 25, 2026

My mother and little sisters weren’t to blame for how things had turned out, but a part of me resented them for having to put my life on hold.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

“When loneliness hits them and the lack of a social support system, they start resenting the locals and perhaps even avoid meeting them and isolate themselves.”

From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2026

“When you don’t plan for joy, you end up either overspending impulsively or depriving yourself and resenting your money plan.”

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 27, 2026

Without discounting the harshness of that imposed acculturation, he thanked what it gained him rather than resenting the means.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025

I look at emails that came in overnight, quietly resenting them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2023

Probably exhausted from resenting me so much, I think with a wry smile.

From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth