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How to use resentful in a sentence

19 example sentences · adjective

Resentful means inclined to resent, who tends to harbor resentment, when wronged. Example: “His resentful attitude only made matters worse during the custody proceedings.”

Examples of resentful by meaning

adjectiveHarboring resentment, full of resentment, at a given moment.

  • Is it serving Hashem to be machmir and resentful, rather than adhere to the letter of the law and be relaxed and happy?2008 July 16, Jessie Fischbein, “Being Machmir”, in The Jewish Star

More sentences with resentful

  • His resentful attitude only made matters worse during the custody proceedings.From the entry make matters worse
  • A secret-police or Mukhabarat type, bored and resentful and hard to shake.2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 283. From the entry mukhabarat
  • He claimed that her grip was so strong on him that he was resentful.2006, Steve Gerali, “The Teenage Guy’s Family and Friends (Social Development)”, in Teenage Guys: Exploring Issues Adolescent Guys Face…. From the entry emasculate
  • Raj leaned back in the saddle and Horace halted with a resentful wuffle.2003, S. M. Stirling, David Drake, Conqueror, Baen Books, →ISBN, page 58. From the entry wuffle
  • Resentful of the saddle-fast stranger, eight foolhardies return for more adventure.1977, Rolf R. Mueller, Festival and Fiction in Heinrich Wittenwiler's Ring, page 26. From the entry foolhardy
  • The everbusy wife is generally less resentful to intercourse some time after menstruation and before pre-menstrual tension.1966, International Planned Parenthood Federation, Proceedings of the Conference of the Region for Europe, Near East and Africa. From the entry everbusy
  • Mrs Dibble was resentful and peevish at having been trounced into employing old Peter.1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 67. From the entry agen
  • Her tone was resentful, rejecting a burst of generous emotion on her behalf.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 233. From the entry petulantly
  • If she didn't make it properly, he'd be resentful.2013, Florida Ann Town, On the Rim, page 84. From the entry unmake
  • Right to be superior, angry, resentful, bitterful. . . .1974, Mary Stolz, The edge of next year. From the entry bitterful
  • As evidenced in the overtourism concept, residents may become resentful of the intrusions of visitors and visitors' impacts on their ways of living (Figure 9.2).2018, Alastair M. Morrison, Marketing and Managing Tourism Destinations, Routledge, →ISBN, page 94. From the entry overtourism
  • The War on Drugs proved popular among key white voters, particularly whites who remained resentful of black progress, civil rights enforcement, and affirmative action.2012, Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow, →ISBN, page 54. From the entry white
  • “Nobody has ever asked us what we wanted,” a resentful Bougainvillean told a visitor, alluding to the copper development as well as the colonial history.1971 July 25, Robert Trumbull, “Bougainvilleans Offered Shares in a Rich Mine”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times…. From the entry Bougainvillean
  • Many are resentful of "stockpiling"—the hoarding of hundreds of lipstickers, mostly at Government expense, pending contracts not yet awarded and sometimes not even in sight.1957, Atkinson's Evening Post and Philadelphia Saturday News, page 149. From the entry lipsticker
  • His resentful comments on this conviction were greeted only by great tears falling in silence, and almost convulsive grippings of his hand.1949, Stendhal [pseudonym; Marie-Henri Beyle], edited by William Somerset Maugham, Stendhal's The Red and the Black, volume 10, page 126. From the entry gripping
  • She had never known her grandmother, on either side, and when she was little she was a bit resentful that Theresa was such a drastically ungrandmotherly type.2017, E[mily] K[ate] Johnston, That Inevitable Victorian Thing, Dutton Books, →ISBN, page 35. From the entry ungrandmotherly
  • I pretended to grow resentful of the body pillow and named him Fred, because I told my wife it was like having a four-foot man in our bed.2000, Bradley G. Richardson, Daddy Smarts: A Guide for Rookie Fathers, Taylor Trade Publishing, →ISBN, page 61. From the entry body pillow
  • Edith, still rather in a dream, rather resentful that her dream was being broken, pulled herself together and said she had had a very nice time at Northbridge, and Mrs.2000, Angela Thirkell, A Double Affair, page 132. From the entry auntship

Meaning of resentful

  1. adjective Inclined to resent, who tends to harbor resentment, when wronged.
  2. adjective Harboring resentment, full of resentment, at a given moment.

Full definition of resentful

Questions about resentful in a sentence

How do you use resentful in a sentence?
Resentful is used as an adjective. For example: “His resentful attitude only made matters worse during the custody proceedings.”
What is a short sentence with resentful?
“If she didn't make it properly, he'd be resentful.”
What does resentful mean?
Resentful means inclined to resent, who tends to harbor resentment, when wronged.

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