(a.) Inclined to resent; easily provoked to anger; irritable.
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.
Unforgiving
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Comic writing can be a brutal, unforgiving business, yet it can produce great and multi-layered prose, combining comedy, pathos and satire.
(2) To somehow use the upcoming 2012 Olympics as a reason to do this is, in my opinion, unforgivably cynical.
(3) Obviously she’s probably felt for years that she was black on the inside and denied it all through her childhood ... since she’s transitioned and identifies herself as black, than we should just let her be and live her life in peace.” Mary Elizabeth Williams, a Salon writer, echoed those who said Dolezal’s alleged fraud was unforgivable.
(4) Hollande described Cahuzac's actions as an "unforgivable moral error".
(5) We had hounded Swales out, in an unforgiving public humiliation, for a childhood hero we believed would make us happy again.
(6) When money is tight, it’s simply unforgiveable to waste taxpayers’ money.
(7) In an escalating legal battle between mostly Republican-controlled states and the Obama administration over voter ID and other election laws, a panel of three judges in Washington DC found that the Texas legislation imposed "strict, unforgiving burdens on the poor" because of the cost and process involved in obtaining identification.
(8) By day, they roamed for miles under the unforgiving sun so they would not be around if the men with machine guns swooped in again.
(9) But as the trip to Scranton neared my emotions became uncontrollable, and the nights were unforgivably restless.
(10) By plotting the percent failing in the 1st year as a function of per cycle failure rates for perfect and imperfect use, it was concluded that the OM is fairly effective if used perfectly, extremely unforgiving of imperfect use, and moderately difficult to use perfectly.
(11) He had committed two unforgiveable crimes: seeking a rigorous inspection of US facilities; and pressing Saddam Hussein to sign the Chemical Weapons Convention, to help prevent the war George Bush was itching to wage.
(12) The independent inquiry into child sexual abuse in Rotherham, which involved the abuse of predominantly white girls by predominantly Pakistani men, even suggested that the unforgivable failure of the Labour council to take action was associated with a reluctance to broach ethnically sensitive issues.
(13) These are unforgiving times for people who want to expose what governments want kept secret.
(14) Moral leader The Daily Mail on the FA's refusal to comment on JT: "Even in the sleazy, venal world of football, Terry's record was unforgivable.
(15) In the Radio Times, the show's producer and director, Steven Moffat, lambasts the corporation's "outright stupidity and unforgivable blindness" in axing the show 24 years ago.
(16) Yet Van Gaal will know they have to be more streetwise to prosper in a competition that can be unforgiving.
(17) The 25-year-old footballer, who was released from prison on Friday having served half of a five-year sentence for raping a woman in a hotel room, told the Sunday Mirror in an interview conducted shortly before he was freed that cheating on his girlfriend was “unforgivable”.
(18) Miliband relented, and Balls took the exam, including clapping rhythmically, in the formal, unforgiving atmosphere music examiners love to generate.
(19) They involved not one error, but a whole chain of errors, and they are all essentially unforgiveable,” he said.
(20) But the pressure from ValueAct and other shareholders could be unforgiving.