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resent
verb as in be angry about
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Example Sentences
There’s usually something that one friend can afford that the others can’t, or something that someone wants to do that someone who doesn’t will resent them for doing without them.
“He was weak and he would overcome that by being too strong physically, by beating me. I resented it because the punishment didn’t fit the crime.”
He is not the first American president to resent the way its European allies have saved money by sheltering behind the US defence budget.
Putin historically resents the spread of Nato eastwards.
I have little doubt that he resents real scientists, as poseurs always do when confronted with the real thing.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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