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as in grudge
a lingering ill will towards a person for a real or imagined wrong
if you continue to harbor resentment toward your father, you'll never be able to move on with your life
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as in jealousy
a painful awareness of another's possessions or advantages and a desire to have them too
I don't have any resentment over my friend's luxurious house
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as in anger
the feeling of being offended or resentful after a slight or indignity
my resentment at being spoken to like I'm stupid
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Recent Examples of resentment
Carlson admitted in a statement filed by his defense to setting the landmark mansion ablaze out of a sense of personal frustration and class resentment.
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Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 13 Mar. 2026
Standing together in their old yard, Taylor’s resentment toward Liann has evaporated, and so has Liann’s toward Taylor.
—Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2026
The result is that even the simple act of standing peacefully with a sign, calling for women’s rights, accountability and peace, can provoke resentment strong enough to spill into public intimidation.
—Jodi Bondi Norgaard, Chicago Tribune, 11 Mar. 2026
The tension between Carol and Carol Two ratchets up as the latter caters to every whim of the men in the household with a wide smile and not a hint of resentment.
—David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 10 Mar. 2026
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Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 13 Mar. 2026
Standing together in their old yard, Taylor’s resentment toward Liann has evaporated, and so has Liann’s toward Taylor.
—Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2026
The result is that even the simple act of standing peacefully with a sign, calling for women’s rights, accountability and peace, can provoke resentment strong enough to spill into public intimidation.
—Jodi Bondi Norgaard, Chicago Tribune, 11 Mar. 2026
The tension between Carol and Carol Two ratchets up as the latter caters to every whim of the men in the household with a wide smile and not a hint of resentment.
—David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 10 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for resentment
Noun
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After one sip of Viola's magical potion, Madeline and Helen begin a new era of life (and death) with their youth and beauty restored…and a grudge to last eternity.—
Jennifer McRae,
CBS News,
17 Mar. 2026
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Gibbs still harbors a major grudge from their New Orleans bar encounter when meeting Pride again on an NIS 1990s case.—
Bryan Alexander,
USA Today,
10 Mar. 2026
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Playing boxer Jake LaMotta, Robert De Niro gave all of his mind and body to this portrait of a man destroyed by his anger, his jealousies, his pride, his retrograde notions of manhood.—
Devan Coggan,
Entertainment Weekly,
15 Mar. 2026
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The Prisoner—the fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time—spirals through the vortex of the narrator’s jealousy concerning Albertine.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 Mar. 2026
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The decision closed a flashpoint case that has bitterly divided Israel since the soldiers were arrested in 2024 at the notorious Sde Teiman military prison, prompting anger from members of the far-right government and hard-line ultranationalists who violently overran the prison in protest.—
JULIA FRANKEL THE ASSOCIATED PRESS,
Arkansas Online,
13 Mar. 2026
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At the cemetery, drug-war widows unleashed on him the full force of their anger and anguish.—
Sheila Coronel,
The Atlantic,
13 Mar. 2026
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Mutiny includes no college grads in dead-end jobs whose grievances have turned them toward MAGA rather than union activism—young men and women recruited by Turning Point USA while still in college.—
George Packer,
The Atlantic,
16 Mar. 2026
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Both grievances remain pending.—
Tamerra Griffin,
New York Times,
13 Mar. 2026
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Murphy Austin condemns antisemitism, violence, and acts of hatred in any form.—
Stepheny Price,
FOXNews.com,
18 Mar. 2026
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But it was inspired out of just seething hatred.—
Brian Hiatt,
Rolling Stone,
16 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Among agonized grunts and huffs, Probst narrated the fumbles.—
Sarah Grant,
New Yorker,
2 Feb. 2026
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David walks out of the kitchen and Moira huffs and takes his spot over the pot.—
Sabrina Weiss,
PEOPLE,
31 Jan. 2026
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If anything, the frustration is that everybody wanted it sooner.—
John Ramos,
CBS News,
18 Mar. 2026
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Impatience or frustration could jump out.—
Magi Helena,
Dallas Morning News,
17 Mar. 2026
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Those calls have been met with eye-rolling and righteous indignation.—
Daniel DePetris,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Mar. 2026
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But this indignation ignores what Chalamet was actually saying.—
Tiana Lowe Doescher,
The Washington Examiner,
13 Mar. 2026
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“Resentment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/resentment. Accessed 19 Mar. 2026.
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