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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of resent.

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Examples

  • The suits who run the FA are the same sort of people Iain resents from the Carlton (Monday) Club.

    Ron Greenwood - A Hammer to the Core 2006

  • My stepmother, who did not grow up in a Jewish home, chose to keep kosher when she married my father, and says that after twenty years the one rule of kashrut she still resents is not mixing milk and meat dishes in a single dishwasher load, which she finds both illogical and wasteful.

    The Kosher Conversion 2005

  • My stepmother, who did not grow up in a Jewish home, chose to keep kosher when she married my father, and says that after twenty years the one rule of kashrut she still resents is not mixing milk and meat dishes in a single dishwasher load, which she finds both illogical and wasteful.

    The Kosher Conversion 2005

  • (Hear, hear) Great Britain resents this dominance.

    The European Situation 1924

  • In the film General Musharraf looks straight into our camera and declares that he "resents" any suggestion that he could have done more to save Benazir Bhutto's life.

    Duane Baughman: Truth Is the Greatest Revenge Duane Baughman 2010

  • Barry denies calling Hudman a racist, adding he "resents" the assertion.

    UPDATED: Nickles demands Barry apologize for racism accusation against city official 2010

  • And the EU, the largest economy in the world, "resents" the US for Helms-Burton?

    Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines 2009

  • Robbins "resents" this statement, and is printing things out and accusing people of going after his family just generally acting like a lunatic.

    Gawker 2008

  • "resents" the fact that the National Government chooses to further perpetuate the stereotype that students are lazy and ungrateful.

    NZ On Screen 2010

  • "resents" the fact that the National Government chooses to further perpetuate the stereotype that students are lazy and ungrateful.

    NZ On Screen 2010

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