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Meaning resent meaning

What does resent mean?
Definitions in simple English

resent Verb

— Resent is to be angry or bitter about something. I resent having to do homework when I could be outside playing.

resent

— verb feel bitter or indignant about She resents being paid less than her co-workers — verb (= begrudge) wish ill or allow unwillingly

Synonyms resent synonyms

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resent English » English

hate grudge begrudge be indignant regret envy dislike bear a grudge be angry rage irritate feel resentment against feel bitter blame annoy angry take offence at spite scorn resentment pout offend obstinate knowledge jealous of infuriate indignation indignant have it in for have against have a grudge against hatred harbour resentment flare up feel hurt feel aggrieved enraged displease detest curse bear a grudge against be vexed be revengeful be rancor be offended at be enraged be dissatisfied be displeased be annoy anger

Topics resent topics

What do people use resent to talk about?
Language and thought Emotion Feel bad

Angry

Conjugation resent conjugation

How do you conjugate resent?

resent · verb

Examples resent examples

How do I use resent in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I resent your cynical remarks.
Do you resent my being here?
I resent his rude attitude.

Movie subtitles

You know, you're beginning to fascinate me and I resent that in any man.
Because people always resent troops moving in on them.
I resent what you said about your brain.
I rather resent the army gambling on exchange and losing.
I don't resent your not paying me for the past two months. but the thought that I should split my bank account with you. that you should take half of my life's savings. that is really too much for me, sir.
We resent such things.
You see, she's bound to be insanely jealous at first, and she must resent you bitterly.
I resent the innuendo!
But I resent the implication.
Even the Navy couldn't resent if I saw him once more.
They rather resent the invasion of their privacy, I believe quite properly, sir.
I resent that.
It's unfortunate that some of my fellow citizens resent my realistic attitude toward Japan.
Judge, quite a mob of miners down at the jail. They seem to resent our locking up their boyfriend.
If I were a man, you'd resent that.
Madam, I resent that. Some of my best friends are housewives.
She seems to resent it.
Your sympathy, your concern. all pretense, underneath which you resent me.
The people resent this man, Your Majesty.
I resent the understatement.
Folks will resent you coming to the ball in it.
I resent what you said about your brain. I think it's beautiful.
But maybe you won't resent her and discount everything she says the way you do me just because I happen to be your employer.
Now, that's why I resent your attentions.
You see, she's bound to be insanely jealous at first and she must resent you bitterly.
I'm afraid he'd resent it terribly.
When a man reaches my age, he grows I think to resent subconsciously the movement of everything except the respiratory muscles which keep him alive.
They seem to resent our locking up their boyfriend.
I resent that, Professor.
I wonder if you don't resent that in her.
Tell me, Your Royal Highness, if your father corrected you about something, would you resent that?
You resent me for being able to make a new life for myself.
Young people resent conventions.

News and current affairs

In the past, a poor African might have looked at his compatriots and resented their wealth; now, both he and his better-off compatriots look at the rich world and resent the huge income gaps they see.
Those who advocate leaving globalization exclusively in the hands of the private sector may resent the idea of vesting tax-raising authority in a global agency.
Many Europeans now resent the expanding powers of EU bureaucracy.
But they resent it because it denies their superiority and exposes them and their children to other religions and secular cultures.
The new invitees resent not being included as full members able to help plan and shape the meetings, and the original countries' delegations have expanded to include hundreds of officials each.
Affluent Flemings in Belgium resent having to support unemployed Walloons.
While the expected revisions to Japan's defense framework are a positive development, many Japanese still resent the lack of symmetry in the alliance obligations.
Hanoi's officials, too, resent that investors fly to their city to get approval for deals, only to do business in the South.
These newly rich provincials resent the old Istanbul elite as much as businessmen from Texas or Kansas hate the East Coast elites of New York and Washington.
Nor has it brought peace to the oil rich Niger delta whose impoverished people resent exploitation of the resources of their territory for the enrichment of a corrupt elite.
I don't resent the ease with which basic science faculty are promoted; after all, I am sure that I also enjoyed the perks that come with this designation.
And they resent - to the point of mobilizing in the streets - any hint that a clique at the top is barring their way.
Ukrainians may at times resent these impersonal modern mechanisms, but they increasingly (if grudgingly) recognize them as necessary.
Many of America's allies say that they resent the excessive unilateralism of the Bush Administration's foreign policy, but even President Clinton argued that America must be prepared to go it alone when no alternative exists.
As a result, many resent welfare recipients and fear competition for jobs - a sentiment that is fueling the rise of populist, anti-EU, and anti-immigrant parties across Europe.
They even resent the Republic's commemoration of Jews' suffering during WWII.
The majority of Iraqis deeply resent Saudi Arabia - and with good reason.
More broadly, Putin's defiance of US hegemony could attract support from countries and peoples worldwide that resent American-imposed values and norms.
One reason why Flemish Belgians resent having to prop up the Walloons with their tax money is that they regard them almost as foreigners.
A vast majority of Pakistan's citizens deeply resent America's presence and influence in their country.
Too much dependence has also had an infantilizing effect. Like permanent adolescents, Europeans and Japanese crave the security of the great American father, and deeply resent him at the same time.
Hamas leaders claim that they were not consulted before the announcement, and they resent Abbas's unilateral decision, calling it a direct violation of an agreement between Hamas and Abbas's Fatah party that led to the current ceasefire with Israel.
Both Sunni Arabs and Kurds already resent al Maliki's mild reaction to Iran's recent shelling of Iraqi territory - an attempt to strike at Iranian Kurdish militants fleeing across its border with Iraq.

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