resentfulness
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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
Service was natural and easy for them, and the cherishing of friends and foes in their need; but resentfulness and revenge moved them hardly at all during their long years of bondage.
From The Ultimate Criminal The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 17 by Archibald Henry Grimké
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