resentful
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One chapter focuses on the “depleting, frustrating, resentful boredom” that defined his experience of parenting young children.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026
Beyond that, the main point of similarity between Bessette and Diana is that the paparazzi hounded both – Diana to death, and Bessette to resentful exhaustion.
From Salon • Feb. 12, 2026
I am resentful that his children were no-shows for his heart surgery, yet they are vultures about his assets.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 22, 2026
Eli, who’s married but in a complicated open relationship situation with his increasingly resentful wife, would rather not have to choose sides in the vaccine mandate debate.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 17, 2025
Kevan Lannister was beginning to understand why Cersei had grown so resentful of the Tyrells.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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