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

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