resentment

Examples of resented

resented

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

It was also problematic because some people with dementia resented being monitored and tried to evade it.
Indeed, less-educated supporters resented their dependence on more highly educated representatives.
There is however a danger that compulsory education participation may be resented.
The measure was also a clear populist appeal to merchants who resented the domination over rural wage earners by plantation stores.
It was once normal to think that the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical courts was resented by the laity, and deservedly so.
Interestingly, in this case the family work-team so resented the demands foisted upon them that they came to sabotage the crop.
Some interviewees reported that stepmothers who resented them had treated them badly.
Such regulation, often much resented by the local inhabitants, brought communes into conflict with the growing apparatus of forest administration.
Voters often resented the lack of lavish expenditure at election time.
Top-down rules were resented, and the researchers were reluctant to leave important decisions to nonscientific authorities.
Finally, the experienced warders deeply resented the influence of the much younger social workers, fresh out of university.
This was deeply resented by many local prison officials.
More significantly, they resented the way the project had been implemented, especially in relation to other ongoing colonial interventions.
As far as the villeins were concerned, probably more than just the money payment was resented.
According to a long-serving tax officer, this form of selecting the tax administration's leadership was widely resented among tax officers.
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