resentfulness

Example Sentences

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David Finney, a retired police officer, remembers a sudden resentfulness.

From New York Times • Mar. 8, 2021

In Tuan, the Jenningses’ alt-child, the show sets up a contrast: his dogmatic conviction, presumably born of severe hardship, versus Paige’s uncertainty and resentfulness, born of her privileged American childhood.

From New York Times • Mar. 7, 2017

Given the number of times he was kidnapped, it might be natural for Stendal to nurse bitter and resentfulness toward the Farc.

From The Guardian • Jan. 26, 2016

And yet, for no one else is resentfulness so central.

From New York Times • Aug. 7, 2015

The influence of the three older children, envied and imitated by the next three in order of age, was responsible for the inclusion of this second group in the general tendency toward unruliness and resentfulness.

From Mr. Bingle by McCutcheon, George Barr