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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of resent.

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Examples

  • It was 'the worst looking animal' he had ever seen, and the captain resented any suggestion that it may have been a whale or a porpoise.

    Archive 2008-12-01 2008

  • No doubt Mark Twain resented being taken as no more than an entertainer, and no doubt he had small regard for his more mechanical squibs and sketches.

    Mark Twain, or the Ambiguities 1966

  • Call resented the question so much that it was all he could do to keep from simply riding off with the black carpenters.

    Comanche Moon Larry McMurtry 1997

  • Call resented the question so much that it was all he could do to keep from simply riding off with the black carpenters.

    Comanche Moon Larry McMurtry 1997

  • Call resented the question so much that it was all he could do to keep from simply riding off with the black carpenters.

    Comanche Moon Larry McMurtry 1997

  • Call resented the question so much that it was all he could do to keep from simply riding off with the black carpenters.

    The Lonesome Dove Series Larry McMurtry 1995

  • Lorena thought Captain Call resented the fact that his old partner, Gus McCrae, had left her his half of the proceeds from the herd the Hat Creek outfit had trailed from Texas to Montana.

    The Lonesome Dove Series Larry McMurtry 1995

  • Lorena thought Captain Call resented the fact that his old partner, Gus McCrae, had left her his half of the proceeds from the herd the Hat Creek outfit had trailed from Texas to Montana.

    Streets of Laredo Larry McMurtry 1993

  • I tried not to [feel conflicts between family responsibilities and my job], but I know that when I was going to school, the kids kind of resented that.

    Women Who Dared - Freyda Sanders on WORK AND FAMILY 2010

  • I tried not to [feel conflicts between family responsibilities and my job], but I know that when I was going to school, the kids kind of resented that.

    Gender Answers - Women Who Dared - Jewish Women's Archive 2010

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