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Definition of Resent

Resent

To be sensible of; to feel

In a good sense, to take well; to receive with satisfaction.

In a bad sense, to take ill; to consider as an injury or affront; to be indignant at.

To express or exhibit displeasure or indignation at, as by words or acts.

To recognize; to perceive, especially as if by smelling; -- associated in meaning with sent, the older spelling of scent to smell. See Resent, v. i.

To feel resentment.

To give forth an odor; to smell; to savor.

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Resent Quotations

I resent having to prove that I'm not a retard.
Megan Fox

In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, not does it comport with our policy so to do. It is only when our rights are invaded or seriously menaced that we resent injuries or make preparation for our defence.
James Monroe

Now that I'm staring down the barrel of the last act of my life, I'm less excited about control and solo effort, and I resent the way the business aspects interfere with my space for creative writing.
David Knopfler

I almost resent the whole fashion thing. Good God- never wearing the same thing twice and all of those things. It's a pain in the ass.
Jennifer Aniston

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.
Barbara de Angelis

I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent the implication that some of the places that I have sung and some of the people that I have known, and some of my opinions, whether they are religious or philosophical, make me less of an American.
Pete Seeger

I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it'd take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn't want to retreat.
Dave Grohl

Despite a large body of work in films, TV, theatre and concerts, I am viewed by many as a Jewish artist. I do not resent the label, except for the fact that I disapprove of labels in general.
Theodore Bikel

It's not people who resent successful people; it's resentful people who resent successful people.
Bo Bennett

My parents couldn't handle my energy so they enrolled me in every sport the school was offering. I didn't resent it because I loved sports and picked them up easily.
Channing Tatum

Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed.
Michael Korda

I don't resent anything.
Imogen Cunningham

You don't only worry about the people who hate or resent you; in a way, you're more worried about the people who love you.
Calvin Klein

I resent limitations. I'm going to be this way for a while.
Fiona Apple

I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.
Manuel Puig

The men resent a woman getting any honour in what they consider is essentially their field. Men painters mostly despise women painters. So I have decided to stop squirming, to throw any honour in with Canada and women.
Emily Carr

I resent the idea that people would blame the messenger for the message, rather than looking at the content of the message itself.
Anita Hill

When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause his child a needless tear. We may not understand life any better, but we will not resent life any longer.
William Barclay

I kind of resent this attitude of men that we somehow must always look good.
Sharon Gless

The only person you resent is yourself.
John Hewson

I resent the fact that people in places like Boston, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco believe that they should be able to tell us how to live our lives, operate our businesses, and what to do with the land that we love and cherish.
Wilford Brimley

I mean, Emily Harris was his wife. And she seemed to resent his leadership, but on the other hand, she felt like a good soldier, that he had to be the leader.
Patty Hearst

I do resent that when you're in the most cool, powerful time of your life, which is your 40s, you're put out to pasture. I think women are so much cooler when they're older. So it's a drag that we're not allowed to age.
Rosanna Arquette

The colonies had little occasion to feel or to resent direct royal prerogative.
Albert Bushnell Hart

What I really resent most about people sticking labels on you is that it cuts off all the other elements of what you are because it can only deal with black and white; the cartoon.
Siouxsie Sioux

Most Americans in both red and blue states reject and resent the message being sent by Hollywood and some in the media that values are subjective, to be defined by the individual and not by God.
Trent Lott

The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don't resent them, you are not fit to live.
Bernard de Mandeville

I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account.
Preston Brooks

It's hard for a man to live with a successful woman - they seem to resent you so much. Very few men are generous enough to accept success in their women.
Shirley Bassey

There are millions of kids who, naturally, if we could only remember how it is - you know, you resent authority, you are impatient for change, you want to fix things up.
Thomas Foran

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Resent Translations

resent in Dutch is aanstoot nemen aan
resent in French is ressentons, ressentent, ressentez
resent in Spanish is resentirse

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