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resentful
adjective as in hostile
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- acrimonious
- adverse
- alien
- allergic
- anti
- argumentative
- bellicose
- catty
- chill
- cold
- competitive
- contentious
- contrary
- disapproving
- dour
- embittered
- hard
- ill-disposed
- inhospitable
- inimical
- malevolent
- malicious
- malignant
- militant
- nasty
- opposed
- opposite
- oppugnant
- ornery
- pugnacious
- rancorous
- scrappy
- sour
- surly
- unfavorable
- unfriendly
- unkind
- unpropitious
- unsociable
- unwelcoming
- viperous
- virulent
- vitriolic
- warlike
Example Sentences
Mr. Eyman draws a picture of “an increasingly resentful child . . . dragged through a succession of cow towns and surrogate fathers.”
The Ku Klux Klan lurked as a constant threat, and resentful Whites were ever present.
The novel relates the partly autobiographical story of Charley Klein, who is raised in community housing in the Bronx, N.Y., in the 1930s by an overworked mother and a resentful, invalid father.
The abrupt shift left Harvey resentful and disenfranchised.
He has two children that live at home with us and the financial burden falls on me, which is mostly fine; I’m their stepmom, after all, but I’m getting resentful.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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