resentment

Example Sentences

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Residents told BBC Eye that strikes hitting residential areas risk deepening resentment, even among those who had previously been critical of the Iranian regime.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

For others the trigger is grievance, isolation or personal instability, which gradually hardens inside online echo chambers, where resentment circulates freely.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 15, 2026

The money poured in, leading to resentment among cohorts who felt they’d been shortchanged, none more so than Bob Gimlin, Patterson’s wingman in the field during the infamous shoot.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

Let go of the grief and resentment and longing that you had for your father, for now at least, and get the job done.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 4, 2026

We were tangled in such knots of resentment we hardly understood them.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver