resentfulness
- a word derived from resentful.
Example Sentences
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David Finney, a retired police officer, remembers a sudden resentfulness.
From New York Times ● Mar. 8, 2021
In Tuan, the Jenningses’ alt-child, the show sets up a contrast: his dogmatic conviction, presumably born of severe hardship, versus Paige’s uncertainty and resentfulness, born of her privileged American childhood.
From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2017
Given the number of times he was kidnapped, it might be natural for Stendal to nurse bitter and resentfulness toward the Farc.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 26, 2016
And yet, for no one else is resentfulness so central.
From New York Times ● Aug. 7, 2015
“I suppose,” exclaimed the woman with sharp resentfulness, “that your sympathies are with that shameless nurse.”
From The Best Policy by Flower, Elliott
