What's the difference between betrayal and resentment?

Betrayal


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or the result of betraying.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "I know the man, and I know he betrays everyone who gets close to him," said one prominent Lebanese politician.
  • (2) The voice claiming to be Chávez says he is convalescing and his closest friends betrayed him.
  • (3) Asked by television reporters outside the church for comment on the officers’ decision to turn their backs, Lynch said: “The feeling is real, but today is about mourning, tomorrow is about debate.” Pressed on the point, Lynch said: “We have to understand the betrayal that they feel.
  • (4) Those Labour MPs plunging their party into an unwanted crisis are betraying not only the party itself but also our national interest at one of the most critical moments any of us can recall.
  • (5) It is a betrayal that will see thousands of young people decide that they cannot risk the debt that going to university would load them with.
  • (6) Plenty of people felt embarrassed, upset, outraged or betrayed by the Goncourts' record of things they had said or had said about them.
  • (7) Tories, for their part, claim that Lib Dems are betraying a promise to vote for the boundary review in return for being able to hold a national referendum on introducing a new alternative vote system last year.
  • (8) What I can say is that it was a disaster and a betrayal to Ludlam, and I can only apologise for not having been more proactive in defending him.
  • (9) You’re betraying the working class of Britain they tell me.
  • (10) A flawed heroine of the anti-apartheid struggle, she is unlikely to keep a low profile in the coming days or to bite her lip if she believes Mandela's memory is being betrayed.
  • (11) This is a man who has betrayed his country,” Kerry told CBS News .
  • (12) Couple this with the revelation that degrees might not even be worth the investment, and the sense of betrayal from those who have already graduated risks spilling over.
  • (13) Bill Gates betrayed his ailing business partner and tried to deprive him of his share of the Microsoft fortune, according to a scathing memoir from Paul Allen , the company's billionaire co-founder.
  • (14) Actually, I had betrayed the seriousness of what had happened, because my story ignored the fact that I had been genuinely frightened and in a degree of danger during the heckling.
  • (15) So maybe tiki-taka hasn't died, but Spain betrayed it by trying to play with a recognized striker, and then with whatever the hell Fernando Torres is."
  • (16) By the most generous standards it is a serious lapse if not a betrayal of the editorial professionalism on which the BBC's reputation has been built over generations.
  • (17) Far from being disgusted with her physicality, Ruskin – a rigorous Christian and idealist – felt anxious and subconsciously betrayed by the realisation that his love for Effie was a one-sided affair.
  • (18) Every detail of the dissolution honours betrayed contempt for the public.
  • (19) But she raised concerns that parents' fears over costs betray a lack of understanding of grants and loans available to students from less affluent homes, suggesting more should be done to explain all the options.
  • (20) For all the bad blood of the past year, for all the talk of betrayal, there remains the kernel of a progressive consensus.

Resentment


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of resenting.
  • (n.) The state of holding something in the mind as a subject of contemplation, or of being inclined to reflect upon something; a state of consciousness; conviction; feeling; impression.
  • (n.) In a good sense, satisfaction; gratitude.
  • (n.) In a bad sense, strong displeasure; anger; hostility provoked by a wrong or injury experienced.

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.