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  • noun Plural form of resentment.

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Examples

  • This can lead to the teenager having major inner conflicts, holding long-term resentments, and his or her own health problems, such as severe depression.

    The 10 Best Questions Dede Bonner 2008

  • This can lead to the teenager having major inner conflicts, holding long-term resentments, and his or her own health problems, such as severe depression.

    The 10 Best Questions Dede Bonner 2008

  • For us to truly overcome the compulsion to become upset, for us to resolve buried rage and resentments, in other words, to discover forgiveness toward all the flawed people who have wronged us, hurt us, shaped our very lives, we need God’s help.

    HOW EVIL WORKS DAVID KUPELIAN 2010

  • For us to truly overcome the compulsion to become upset, for us to resolve buried rage and resentments, in other words, to discover forgiveness toward all the flawed people who have wronged us, hurt us, shaped our very lives, we need God’s help.

    HOW EVIL WORKS DAVID KUPELIAN 2010

  • Looking at your resentments is another good step so that you can clear them out of your way.

    Colleen Perry: Do You Hate Your Body? 2009

  • As Mr. Brooks joked in yesterday's New York Times, all the current anger really signifies nothing more than the "resentments" of middle-class Washingtonians who have suddenly found themselves in charge of the world.

    Wall Street Bonuses Are an Outrage 2009

  • As Mr. Brooks joked in yesterday's New York Times, all the current anger really signifies nothing more than the "resentments" of middle-class Washingtonians who have suddenly found themselves in charge of the world.

    Thomas Frank: Wall Street Bonuses Are an Outrage 2009

  • Perhaps it is a new word you have coined from "resentments" and "sentiments?"

    Bloc Of Neutral Senators Says It's Time To Get Behind Obama 2009

  • His campaign against big-street bike lanes is pandering of the worst kind, a naked attempt by an old political operative to whip up the kind of resentments that can motivate voters.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Marcus Gee 2010

  • His campaign against big-street bike lanes is pandering of the worst kind, a naked attempt by an old political operative to whip up the kind of resentments that can motivate voters.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Marcus Gee 2010

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