Resentment
[rɪ'zentm(ə)nt] or [rɪ'zɛntmənt]
Definition
(n.) The act of resenting.
(n.) The state of holding something in the mind as a subject of contemplation, or of being inclined to reflect upon something; a state of consciousness; conviction; feeling; impression.
(n.) In a good sense, satisfaction; gratitude.
(n.) In a bad sense, strong displeasure; anger; hostility provoked by a wrong or injury experienced.
Editor: Xenia
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Indignation, anger, choler, ire, wrath, displeasure, grudge, heart-burning.
Typist: Susan
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Anger, ire, indignation, animosity
ANT:Calmness, acquiescence, toleration, mildness, endurance, forgiveness
Inputed by Alphonso
Examples
- People will pay as freely to gratify one passion as another, their resentment as their pride. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Both women watched him, Hermione with deep resentment and pity for him, Ursula very impatient. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- They helped to organize a formless resentment by endowing it with intelligence and will. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- She felt so free from ulterior motives that she took up his charge with a touch of resentment. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The gaping wound of my wrongs, too, was now quite healed; and the flame of resentment extinguished. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- When Haywood dramatizes the class struggle he uses class resentment for a social purpose. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- She always envied, almost with resentment, the strange positive fullness that subsisted in the atmosphere around Ursula and Birkin. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He paused, flushed by his diatribe, and fixing on her a look in which resentment was the ingredient she least disliked. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- They must not do less than others, or she should be exposed to odious suspicions, and imagined capable of pitiful resentment. Jane Austen. Emma.
- I think Fred ought not to need telling again what I have already said to him, Mary answered, with a slight resentment in her manner. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He mocked the youth, with an acid ridicule, that made Leitner red in the face and impotent with resentment. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- When Roosevelt formed the Progressive Party on a platform of social reform he crystallized a deep unrest, brought it out of the cellars of resentment into the agora of political discussion. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I showed no resentment, I deferred quarrelling with him till it was necessary to quarrel to some purpose. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- In spite of resentment, by day and night she figured to herself the toils and dangers of the wanderers. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Gudrun stood aloof looking at them with large dark eyes of resentment, suspended for a few moments. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- But if my friends require of me to gratify not only their inclinations, but their resentments, they expect too much of me. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- In her turn, Helen Burns asked me to explain, and I proceeded forthwith to pour out, in my own way, the tale of my sufferings and resentments. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- With resentments, because of the wrong that had been done her, if it were indeed a whisper of the truth. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
Typist: Nora