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resentfulness
noun as in resentment
Weak matches
- acerbity
- acrimony
- animosity
- animus
- annoyance
- antagonism
- bad feeling
- bitterness
- choler
- cynicism
- displeasure
- dudgeon
- embitterment
- exacerbation
- exasperation
- fog
- fury
- gall
- grudge
- huff
- hurt
- ill feeling
- ill will
- indignation
- ire
- irritation
- malice
- malignity
- miff
- offense
- outrage
- passion
- perturbation
- pique
- rage
- rancor
- rancorousness
- rise
- spite
- umbrage
- vehemence
- vexation
- virulence
- virulency
- wrath
Example Sentences
David Finney, a retired police officer, remembers a sudden resentfulness.
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.
J.: Say this to her, since her hinting and your growing resentfulness suggest you haven’t — not in so many words.
Given the number of times he was kidnapped, it might be natural for Stendal to nurse bitter and resentfulness toward the Farc.
Although the study didn’t explicitly differentiate between benign and malicious envy, it did measure such emotional correlates as hostility and resentfulness.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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