resent

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

That Europeans and Canadians resent being spoken to in this way is self-indulgent on our part.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026

Putting aside the feelings of the Greenlanders—who rightly resent being voluntold for statehold—the risks likely outweigh any rewards.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026

The backup singers were in their late twenties, but they seemed to resent her being the center of attention.

From "Small Steps" by Louis Sachar

"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

She also resents some LGBTQ+ advocates’ comparisons of transgender oppression to racial oppression, which she sees as illogical.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

Because of this, he sharply resents falling into traps himself, especially the ones he should have easily seen coming.

From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2025

Everybody resents this inconvenience, and everyone becomes the ruler’s enemy; and these are enemies that can be harmful, since, although conquered, they remain in their own homes.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli

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

I understood why Ilana resented the assignment—I too had bristled when my parents insisted I read.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025

“Bros, how did they get you?” he asked Obinze, with an instant familiarity that Obinze resented.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Instead of resenting success, can’t we be grateful when achievement is fairly earned?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

“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

Calo: Donna has forced Natalie for her whole life into the place of making it OK and then resenting her for making it OK.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2024

Knot had taken on the project of teaching Nailer to read, and it hadn’t taken long for Nailer to begin resenting the tedium of book learning.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi