What's the difference between begrudge and resent?
Begrudge
Definition:
(v. t.) To grudge; to envy the possession of.
Example Sentences:
(1) We must not begrudge any woman her happy ending, but the next revolution will be an acknowledgment that happy endings come in many forms.
(2) Forbes writer Patrick Rishe says Armstrong's bullying of team members was worse than the act of doping itself: I don't begrudge Mr. Armstrong the millions he earned in a sport where most of his competitors were also getting a synthetic enhancement to their performance.
(3) Judith Martin Winchester, Hampshire • I have never voted Conservative, and would never consider voting Ukip, but I think Douglas Carswell deserves more credit than your rather begrudging editorial gives him ( Schism-on sea , 29 August).
(4) Peaches is sorry "for any offence caused", although it will presumably be some years before the victims are old enough to have her soz passed on to them – if indeed it came in any more personal form than her begrudgingly farted-out tweet.
(5) No one would begrudge him a happy ending at Lord's, or a final payday or two in the seasons ahead, whether it comes in Cardiff, Chittagong or Christchurch.
(6) Although a goalless draw at home was a less than inspiring way to clinch promotion, it is hard to begrudge Cardiff their place in the Premier League.
(7) Though they had a begrudging respect for the crew boss, they showed an overriding concern with exploitation.
(8) Statham doesn’t begrudge the latter: “They were my heroes growing up.
(9) Farage is easily most animated when discussing his Common Sense Tour of last year, an auto-parodic-sounding meet-and-greet odyssey around the country, but one of which he speaks so fondly that you can't begrudge him it.
(10) For Ukraine , Yarmolenko was a delight all evening, and while the team retreated a little in the second half, it’s hard to begrudge a little bit of symbolic cheer for them, as weightier matters continue to unfold at home.
(11) Labour has also presided over this ongoing obscenity, while occasionally hinting that they can perhaps wring some begrudged concessions from those elites.
(12) BT wouldn't believe me, so I begrudgingly paid and left for another provider."
(13) Nearly all of Trump’s Republican opponents have suggested they would support him if he were the nominee – albeit begrudgingly.
(14) I don’t begrudge people the money … but in the end there is a balance that has to be struck here and my preference will always be in favour of more jobs,” he said.
(15) It’s not a huge increase if the 60p-a-week figure is accurate and I don’t begrudge paying my share to improve services.
(16) She says: "Working at YouTube, it was kind of like when you're in a gym class and the instructor isn't doing the exercises along with you and you sort of begrudge them: 'You don't know how hard this is, bitch!'
(17) Benítez's own count is three European trophies in 10 seasons and perhaps now it is not just wishful thinking to imagine the people who have campaigned against him can at least begrudgingly appreciate the expertise of his work.
(18) The chancellor's begrudging acceptance of the principle after the 2009 G20 in Pittsburg has since withered away into general antipathy.
(19) He gave them begrudging respect: ‘Gotta say, man, good scam.’” More than 30 years on, the dynamics are such now it is not entirely easy to know how much respect will be evident when the two clubs, sixth and seventh in the Premier League, lock horns in the Europa League on Thursdayremembering better times and driven more by the fear of failure, perhaps, than real affection for the competition.
(20) No one begrudged them their glorious equaliser eight minutes from time as Danny Drinkwater belted the ball into the corner of the net from 30 yards.
Resent
Definition:
(v. t.) To be sensible of; to feel
(v. t.) In a good sense, to take well; to receive with satisfaction.
(v. t.) In a bad sense, to take ill; to consider as an injury or affront; to be indignant at.
(v. t.) To express or exhibit displeasure or indignation at, as by words or acts.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. i.) To feel resentment.
(v. i.) To give forth an odor; to smell; to savor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Kate Connolly , Ian Traynor and Siobhán Dowling cover the "guilt and resentment" Germany's savers feel over pressure to do more to end the euro crisis.
(2) But I also feel a niggling strain of jealousy, even resentment, that it wasn't as easy for me the first time around as it is today for many people.
(3) Resentment towards the political elite, the widening gap between the immensely rich and the poor, the deteriorating social security system, the collapse in oil prices and what Forbes has called "a stampede" of investors out of Russia – an outflow of $42bn in the first four months of 2012 – means the economy is flagging.
(4) I believe that it is too valuable to be destroyed in a fit of resentment, pique or disillusion.
(5) Reacting to the announcement of the government review, Lady Smith of Basildon, the shadow leader of the Lords, said: “This is a massive over-reaction from a prime minister that clearly resents any challenge or meaningful scrutiny.
(6) I was told very politely by [Sony Radio Academy awards committee chairman] Tim Blackmore, a true gentleman, I did not resent it at all.
(7) What Katrina left behind: New Orleans' uneven recovery and unending divisions Read more Ten years on, resentment still lingers about the failure of the federal levee system during hurricane Katrina, the botched response of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema), and the long and difficult process of accessing billions of dollars in grant money for rebuilding, which for some people is not finished.
(8) The same-sex marriage bill became law, greeted with delight by the gay community and suspicious resentment by many Tories.
(9) David Davis , the former Conservative shadow home secretary, has warned that government plans to allow police and security services to extend their monitoring of the public's email and social media communications are unnecessary and will generate huge public resentment.
(10) Old resentments are reappearing as Chinese business takes a growing interest in Indonesian investments.
(11) The 2012 deployment of MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft on the island , and the relocation of a military base have added to popular resentment towards Tokyo.
(12) Brown also dismissed Tory warnings of growing resentment of public sector workers' gold-plated pensions, insisting there had been "significant savings", and refused to comment on whether it was appropriate for council chief executives to earn £200,000-plus a year.
(13) He went west to Alberta, which is like leaving New York to go to Texas – from the bright lights of the city to the oil and gas fields that keep those lights burning; from money and privilege to hard graft and resentment; from progressive to conservative.
(14) Today, like every Saturday, Alfie Haaland will be engulfed by regret and resentment.
(15) Simmering resentment towards the US presence on Okinawa exploded into anger in 1995 after three servicemen abducted and raped a 12-year-old girl , a crime that prompted lengthy negotiations on reducing the country's military footprint.
(16) There's no personal resentment; Greeks aren't like that.
(17) I'm sure that advisers are at fault: mediocre people with PR degrees, eagerly advising on how to avoid the resentment of the masses.
(18) Yet he never revealed the open resentment with which some of the Kennedy loyalists greeted Johnson.
(19) All I can tell you is that it is not from me and I actually resent the suggestion.
(20) We have a society accustomed to the pursuit of prosperity and individual gratification, often resentful of immigrants, and possessing a perilously skin-deep attachment to democracy.