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.
unresenting
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a word derived from
resent.
Example Sentences
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He lifted his eyes, and his look, uncannily impassive, unresenting, unangered, dogged, caused the messenger to drop his gaze as though he had hit a man who was down.
From The Country House by John Galsworthy
Seeing her inflexible, he became halting in his speech, till finally he stopped, still looking at her with an unresenting, dog-like gaze of entreaty.
From The Wild Olive by Basil King
With a look of dumb, unresenting sadness, he turned away, and, leaning on the mantelpiece, stood with his back toward her, and his face buried in his hands.
From The Inner Shrine by Basil King
Jumbo crams another cracker into his mouth and speeds away, hunching the patient, unresenting air with his elbows.
From Back Home by Eugene Wood
But Godfrey thrust her away without looking at her, and left the room, followed humbly by the unresenting Snuff—perhaps because she saw no other career open to her.
From Silas Marner by George Eliot
