Word Finder - resent

definition

To feel resentment over; to consider as an affront.

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The bride greatly resented being left at the church.

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To express displeasure or indignation at.

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To be sensible of; to feel.

definition

In a positive sense, to take well; to receive with satisfaction.

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To recognize; to perceive, especially as if by smelling; -- associated in meaning with sent, the older spelling of scent, to smell. See resent (intransitive verb).

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To give forth an odor; to smell; to savor.

Did he resent everything he was pushed into?

Maybe she would even begin to resent him for it.

Did he resent the way she was taking over his dream?

Would he resent her money?

Do they resent that your father wants only a son for an heir?

Some diners resent the fact that the tip is included in the bill.

Will I resent the sacrifices I must make in order to raise my child?

This includes trips to the store, work hours, etc. However, try to limit the amount of time you leave your pup in the crate, or he will grow to resent it.

They may also resent the additional household duties expected of them.

Often dance instructors will include jazz dance and modern moves in with their "hip hop" choreography, and purists would resent that kind of dance being labeled as such.

He seemed to resent the intrusion of a human being in such an unfrequented spot.

You sound as though you resent him and are even jealous of him.

Ordinary citizens resent the intrusion of government into intimate decisions.

We really resent the night time disturbance whilst we are not troubled by the day flights at all.

This is not about me In many ways I resent what you just said.

Many resent having to wear eyeglasses because they feel that it detracts from their face, but this couldn't be farther from the truth, especially if you select the proper frame.

In addition, other employees often resent having to cover for working mothers who come in late, leave early, or miss work on short notice because of their child's needs.

Depending on the severity and location of the skin rash, the child may withdraw from social activities to avoid teasing or resent restrictions on athletic or other outdoor activities.

Many teenagers resent it when their divorced mom starts dating again, but in Buffy's case, mom's new love interest turned out to be a human-appearing and malfunctioning robot.

The humans of Earth greatly resent the robots who take over their jobs, and there is a move afoot to legislate them off the planet altogether.

You really want to spend eternity with someone you resent?

Charles was powerless openly to resent these outrages, but he obtained from the provincial assemblies the money refused him by the statesgeneral, and deferred his vengeance until the dissensions of his enemies should offer him an opportunity.

If he was half the man they believed him to be – and if she was half as bad as these two related to her – he'd resent her for the rest of their lives.

Thus Protestant learners often become the unwitting confidantes of Catholic Irish speakers who bitterly resent the republican image of the Irish language.

The majority of parents make similar sacrifices within their means and resent the insinuation that they are less caring.

They may resent interference from health professionals attempting to make changes which they do not perceive to be correct.

We strongly resent the abuse of our poverty to sway the interests of the European public.

People who happily resent being slandered but think nothing of slandering the name of another?

In babies and small children scurvy also causes bleeding under the bone membranes, causing very tender swellings so that infants resent being touched.

I also resent the implication that I would attempt to defraud you.

Two things might happen if you do this, they may resent you for talking negatively about their mom or dad, or they may become rebellious towards the other parent.

About 25 percent resent other family members who do not provide any help in the care.

Company employees may resent the fact that some work is being outsourced and may be reluctant or refuse to work with the outsource staff.

If your wife has a big presentation on Monday, she's not going to be able to focus on your time together, and she may actually resent you taking her away from her work at such a crucial time - certainly not the best atmosphere for romance.

In spite of these reforms the Silesians, who felt severely the financial exactions of Matthias, began to resent the control of the Bohemian crown.

It is remarkable that he should not have discovered in her the qualities so obvious to modern champions of her character - easiness, gullibility, incurable innocence and invincible ignorance of evil, incapacity to suspect or resent anything, readiness to believe and forgive all things.

At first the House of Commons was disposed to resent the apparent neglect with which it was treated by being asked to accept a deputy as its leader in place of a Prime Minister who washimself an M.P.; and cries for "Lloyd George " were raised when Mr. Law rose to play the leader's part in the debate on the Address in 1917.

Shanty Town Project We, the year seven's were asked to build a shanty house following our resent studies on shanty Town Project We, the year seven's were asked to build a shanty house following our resent studies on shantytowns in Nairobi.

The teleprinters produced a punched tape, which could be resent via another teleprinter link.

And he was so touchy, too, so ready to resent opposition.

This action, however, did not meet with the approval of MacMahon, who feared that the Arabs would resent it as an infraction of the religious peace, and thought that the Mahommedan church, being a state institution in Algeria, ought to be protected from proselytism; so it was intimated to the prelate that his sole duty was to minister to the colonists.

For this criticism he has himself constantly been reproved, and Tennyson (whose impatience of anything like censure was phenomenal) continued to resent it to the end of his life.

And you tend to resent when others " sell " religion to you.

I kind of resent paying to get into a pub regardless of who is playing.

I decide it 's a bad idea, and resent spending £ 20 on the domain name.

You may have gathered that I have become a complete homebody and really resent going out.

One firm we came across recently seems to resent doing this, choosing to stretch the law to its limits.

Shanty Town Project We, the year seven 's were asked to build a shanty house following our resent studies on shantytowns in Nairobi.

But Inspector Burns was a stolid character; and was either too stupid or too clever to resent such trifles.

Unsurprisingly, this is an assumption which the many able, well-behaved pupils deeply resent.