resent
verb (used with object)
to feel or show displeasure or indignation at (a person, act, remark, etc.) from a sense of injury or insult.
had been resenting
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past perfect progressiveof resent.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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Not until now had he realized how much he had been resenting the performance of a duty.
From Plashers Mead A Novel by Compton MacKenzie
He had been resenting all this while, in spite of his success, the passage of time, for he was daily and hourly growing older, and what had he really achieved?
From The "Genius" by Theodore Dreiser
For two years she had been resenting his secrecy, not understanding his reasons.
From The Art of Disappearing by John Talbot Smith
And while he had been resenting Marguerite's neglect Marguerite was watching by the dying bed.
From The Roll-Call by Arnold Bennett
