How to Use resentful in a Sentence

resentful

adjective

• She gave me a resentful glare.
• She is resentful about being demoted.
• In 415, Athaulf was attacked by a resentful servant and stabbed in the groin; the wound soon proved to be lethal.
  — Tony Perrottet, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Jan. 2023
• The goal is to leave a reader thwarted and thrilled, not stumped and resentful.
  — Molly Young, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2022
• No one deserves to live the rest of their life angry and resentful.
  — Dr. Lobna Karoui, Forbes, 27 May 2021
• White House staffers would feel less resentful of the favoritism.
  — T.a. Frank, The Hive, 1 June 2017
• Tensions will run high, and all of you will grow resentful.
  — Annie Lane, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Feb. 2023
• The women in the family are resentful of the men in the family.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 14 Apr. 2021
• The earth doesn’t need one more resentful, depressed sort.
  — Kendra Nordin Beato, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 May 2020
• As a result, our nation will cease to be resentful and afraid.
  — Carlos Curbelo, The New Republic, 2 Dec. 2022
• People were skeptical and resentful and likely to be on board for a project one day and off the next.
  — Tom Ferrick, Philly.com, 17 Oct. 2017
• Each of you, in your own ways and to various degrees, seems to feel resentful.
  — Lori Gottlieb, The Atlantic, 12 Oct. 2020
• In 2008, Clinton had done best among the most racially resentful white Democrats.
  — Ezra Klein, Vox, 5 Nov. 2018
• Instead of being resentful, take a deep breath and make an effort to find out what their point of view is.
  — Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 6 Feb. 2022
• Orbach raised the idea that if most of the Eagles’ players go, those boycotting the trip might feel resentful and that this would disrupt the team.
  — Dom Giordano, Philly.com, 21 Feb. 2018
• The Cayuse grew resentful, and were probably driven over the edge by a measles outbreak that seemed to spare whites but not their own.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 20 May 2021
• Buyers are resentful that the low-cost mortgages are gone.
  — Conor Dougherty, New York Times, 10 June 2023
• Why parents can't stand it: This dad sounds resentful AF!
  — Nicole Fabian-Weber, Cosmopolitan, 30 Mar. 2016
• And Zimbabweans, who had grown resentful of the father of their nation, talked about the horrors of those years.
  — Karan Mahajan, The New Republic, 26 Mar. 2018
• This story of a resentful artist turned stay-at-home mom morphing into a dog claws its way out of the pile.
  — Hillary Kelly, Vulture, 15 Dec. 2021
• That has made Haideri and other shop owners more resentful of the urban elites in Kabul.
  — Sudarsan Raghavan, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Oct. 2021
• His childhood best friend (Morris), who happens to be the franchise star of the 76ers, grows jealous and resentful.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 13 Oct. 2021
• On the second take, Monk’s recall is more detailed and more resentful.
  — Harmony Holiday, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2023
• After a while, the Tooth Fairy got forgetful and a little resentful at our house.
  — Charlotte Hilton Andersen, Redbook, 5 Feb. 2012
• This guards against folks feeling resentful when filling in for a colleague on leave.
  — Anne Kadet, Fortune, 15 Mar. 2022
• Miss Manners has been told that this has led to resentful feelings, as in your case, and sometimes ugly scenes.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 15 July 2024
• In the YouTube videos, Jones appeared to be resentful about the divorce and accused his ex-wife and her attorney of spreading lies.
  — Crimesider Staff, CBS News, 5 June 2018
• First, her loyal and sometimes-resentful link to Chris.
  — Stephen Fishbach, PEOPLE.com, 18 Apr. 2018
• Santana is resentful that her father isn’t around to balance out her mother’s mood swings.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 15 Aug. 2024
• If this has been a longtime pattern, the other person might be growing resentful.
  — Tarot.com, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024