resentfulness

Examples of resentful

resentful
Nurses are often resentful of this additional and unpaid demand on their time.
Where promotion opportunities were confined to the younger employees, the older workers were resentful and tensions between the age groups occurred.
Similarly, we can imagine the case of the resentful captain.
It includes - the rejected, the intimacy seeker, the resentful, the predatory and the incompetent.
Long-suffering soldiers, conscious of their struggle and resentful of an apathetic public, reached their own conclusions about what they were fighting for.
They were extremely resentful when the expected solidarity proved lacking.
Those forced to resign or unable to work due to caregiving, and those without a partner, were the most resentful.
As a result, governments are mostly staffed by persons of the middle to lower orders, who tend to be jealous and resentful toward their superiors.
In contrast, carers in our sample who were not engaged in or had relinquished other roles felt more resentful about caregiving.
Why is he so resentful?
In a cross-sectional study of 75 cancer patients,23 a distinction was drawn between depressed carers and resentful carers, and different correlates of these states identified.
This made him feel even less in control and resentful, because very few physicians took enough interest in him to use language that he could understand.
They were resentful and angry, however.
Perhaps domestic-group residents became increasingly less reliant on extra-household kin assistance, and more resentful of decisions made outside the co-residential group that affected life within it.
To see this, we should note that the unhelpful singers, resentful captain, and unhelpful subordinates would never sincerely use normative language to describe the behavior of other participants.
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