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Another word for resentment

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resentment

n.

bitterness, indignation, pique, offense, displeasure, rancor, animus, antagonism, hurt, perturbation, acrimony, acerbity, exacerbation, umbrage, grudge, envy, jealousy, spite, outrage, hostility, ill will, hard feelings, anger, ire, malice, vexation, exasperation, choler, annoyance, irritation, rankling, discontent, gall, bile; see also anger, hate.

Antonyms friendship, contentment, delight. See syn. study at offense.offense.

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Another word for resentment

noun

Extreme displeasure caused by an insult or slight:
dudgeon, huff, miff, offense, pique, ruffled feathers, umbrage. See like, pain
The quality or state of feeling bitter:
acrimony, bitterness, embitterment, gall¹, rancor, rancorousness, resentfulness, virulence, virulency. See feelings

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Women looked at her in resentment as she pushed her way through.
The royal power, however, can only pardon when private resentment is appeased.
She withdrew from the king's society, and in spite of Clarendon's attempts to moderate her resentment, declared she would return to Portugal rather than consent to a base compliance.
There was great resentment throughout Italy, and in answer to the popes request Charles Albert declared that he was with him in everything, while from South America Giuseppe Garibaldi wrote to offer his services to Hi~ Holiness.
The Holy See, much dependent at that time on its Swiss mercenaries in the pursuit of its secular ends, expressed no resentment on this occasion.

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