resented

Example Sentences

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In a court brief, federal prosecutors allege the man who started the Palisades fire resented the rich and idolized Luigi Mangione.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026

By the end, the dressing room had fractured into three camps: a small group of loyalists, a larger group who actively resented him, and a numb majority who had simply stopped caring.

From BBC • May 13, 2026

In his Substack post, Burry resented being called “the boy who cried wolf,” saying the media has “misread regulatory filings” and has said he was calling for a “crash” when he didn’t use the word.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026

He’s long resented her inability to contain the frenzy surrounding the Jeffrey Epstein files.

From Slate • Apr. 4, 2026

She resented her aunts shutting her out like that, especially when she had been in complete charge until they came.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith