heartburning
[ hahrt-bur-ning ]
noun
rankling discontent, especially from envy or jealousy; grudge.
Origin of heartburning
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How to use heartburning in a sentence
So passed a year, full of anxiety and heartburning for them, full of the sweetest happiness for me.
The Making of a Saint | William Somerset MaughamMuch heartburning and much needless trouble often come of "offences" which exist only in imagination.
Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of Matthew | John Monro GibsonIn the following pages is the Courant confession of Burke, about which there was so much difficulty and heartburning.
The History of Burke and Hare | George Mac GregorThis is why a question apparently of pure science turns out practically so full of inward heartburning and mutual reviling.
It reduced his heartburning to melancholy, and he exclaimed, "Why the deuce did I come here!"
The Mayor of Casterbridge | Thomas Hardy
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