resent
- to feel or show displeasure or indignation at (a person, act, remark, etc.) from a sense of injury or insult.
Origin of resent
resend
- to send again.
- to send back.
Origin of resend
Examples from the Web for resent
Contemporary Examples of resent
Then you resent those who do still use power like the United States.
But Erdogan has succeeded by governing with a controlling style that many Turks are growing to resent.
But that headline could have also easily lamented: Nurses Doubt Doctors Abilities, Resent Salaries.
We cannot resent modernism and continue behaving in the culturally reactionary way we do now.
They resent themselves and others and that resentment finds violent expression.
Historical Examples of resent
Not only do we drop the subject there, but we resent it if everyone else does not drop the subject there.
The Conquest of FearBasil King
The mitigation of that horror they condemn, resent, and often ascribe to the devil.
The Conquest of FearBasil King
He followed her, and, because they were old neighbors, she did not resent it when he put his hand on her shoulder.
KMary Roberts Rinehart
By all the wives that he held most sacred, he felt impelled to resent it.
She could not be blind to the mute adoration of his gaze; nor could she resent it.
The Black BagLouis Joseph Vance
resent
- (tr) to feel bitter, indignant, or aggrieved at
Word Origin for resent
Word Origin and History for resent
"take (something) ill; be in some degree angry or provoked at," c.1600, from French ressentir "feel pain, regret," from Old French resentir "feel again, feel in turn" (13c.), from re-, intensive prefix, + sentir "to feel," from Latin sentire (see sense (n.)). Related: Resented; resenting.