120 adjectives to describe resentments

Some of them felt the bitterest resentment toward him.

A feeling of fierce resentment filled me, and miserable questionings.

" Samuel hobbled onward, his brow knit with angry resentment.

It was the open admiration of young Stoddard which had roused the sullen resentment he was now spending on her.

But it was the passionate resentment of the revolutionists that perverted this exasperating difference into another 'intolerable wrong.' Washington was above such meaner measures.

The kindness of your last recompenses me for the injustice of your former letter; but you cannot sure be angry at my little resentment.

The orator, not being able to make much answer, was checked in the midst of his invectives, but not without feeling a secret resentment against the person who had, at once, interrupted his harangue, and exposed his ignorance.

Without activity or vigour, he was unfit to conduct war: without policy or art, he was ill fitted to maintain peace: his resentments, though hasty and violent, were not dreaded, while he was found to drop them with such facility; his friendships were little valued, because they were neither derived from choice, nor maintained with constancy.

He said to himself, "She never truly loved me, or nothing under heaven could make her believe me capable of a dishonesty;" and, in midst of all his pain at this thought, he had an indignant resentment, as if Mercy herself had been in some way actively responsible for all this misery.

He felt a sharp new resentment against the man who was letting her suffer rather than betray himself, and he again resolved that this man must be made to "toe the mark," to "take his needings;" and that, meantime, the deceived girl must be effectually reassured.

And Mary could not but feel a keen resentment to think that her story, such as it was, the story which she had only now heard in her own person, should be discussed by such people.

"Why else should you be admitted to these rooms without question in his absence?" Without visible resentment, the Princess Sofia nodded thoughtfully into those distorted features.

He bowed, without apparent resentment, as he answered Mr. Merrick: "Thank you, sir; you have already served me admirably.

The purpose of this Government is to concur in none which would import hostility to Europe or justly excite resentment in any of her States.

"I mean, you have shown me that I share at least one quality with you: instinctive resentment of the voice of reason.

The German Landwehr, who were everywhere about, treated the inhabitants civilly enough, and the inhabitants showed no outward resentment against the Germans.

She had wept away her fury, and a dull resentment sat heavily upon her.

he said, with sudden resentment.

Himes clutched the pipe in his teeth till it clicked, and stared in helpless resentment at his mealer.

His daughter's outburst seemed at last to have roused him to a faint resentment.

There was even a streak of contrariness in her; what she might have said to herself she was prone to criticize or contradict, if it were too confidently or urgently pressed on her by another; perhaps, too, Cynthia's claim to be the Captain's mouthpiece stirred up in her a latent resentment; it was not to be called a jealousy; it was rather an amused irritation at both the divinity and his worshiper.

The only Way I can think of to avoid the fatal Consequences of the Discovery of this Matter, is to fly away for ever; which I must do to avoid my Husband's fatal Resentment against the Man who attempts to abuse him, and the Shame of exposing the Parent to Infamy.

And in Bleak House, the culminating story That marks the zenith of his swift career, All the great qualities that won him glory, As writer and reformer too, appear: Righteous resentment of abuses hoary, Of pomp and cant, self-centred, insincere; And burning sympathy that glows unchecked For those who sit in darkness and neglect.

"Implacable resentment was their crime, And grievous has the expiation been.

My unreasonable resentment towards Aniela is passing, and the more I feel how undeserved was my harshness, the more contrite I become, and the more tenderly I think of her.

120 adjectives to describe  resentments