resentfully


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re·sent·ful

 (rĭ-zĕnt′fəl)
adj.
Full of, characterized by, or inclined to feel indignant ill will.

re·sent′ful·ly adv.
re·sent′ful·ness n.
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Adv.1.resentfully - with resentment; in a resentful manner; "the best doctors would stay resentfully out of the national service, refusing to become the minions of a Minister"
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Translations
باسْتِياء، بامْتِعاض
rozmrzele
forurettet
bosszúsan
meî gremju
kızarak

resentfully

[rɪˈzentfəlɪ] ADV [look, behave] → con resentimiento
he said resentfullydijo resentido or con resentimiento
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

resentfully

[rɪˈzɛntfʊli] advavec ressentiment
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

resentfully

adv sayärgerlich; lookverärgert, wütend; behaveverärgert
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

resentfully

[rɪˈzɛntfəlɪ] advcon risentimento
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

resent

(riˈzent) verb
to feel annoyed about (something) because one thinks it is unfair, insulting etc. I resent his interference in my affairs.
reˈsentful adjective
having or showing such a feeling of annoyance. She feels resentful that her sister married before she did.
reˈsentfully adverb
reˈsentfulness noun
reˈsentment noun
He has a feeling of resentment against the police after the way he was treated by them.
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References in classic literature ?
Bingley likes," said her mother resentfully, "since we are not to visit."
"Ah, NO!" she returned, almost with the full privilege of childish inconsequence, resentfully, though with a long sweetness in her little drawl of the negative.
"Won't come to the hand that's fed 'm all these months," the dog- musher muttered resentfully. "And you--you ain't never fed 'm after them first days of gettin' acquainted.
Pinocchio, mortified at being taken for a crab, said resentfully:
He had no rifle; he could not fight with his hands, said he resentfully to his plan.
But though it all brought for him thus a dim light, "You 'pitied' him?" he grudgingly, resentfully asked.
Mrs d'Urberville was not the first mother compelled to love her offspring resentfully, and to be bitterly fond.
"You were bad enough before," said the Magician, resentfully; "but a live phonograph is enough to drive every sane person in the Land of Oz stark crazy."
"I never felt glad to see Gilbert go before," she thought, half- resentfully, half-sorrowfully, as she walked alone up the lane.
And ashore, a white man alone, attended by an Irish terrier puppy with a heart flooded with love and by a black king resentfully respectful of the dynamite of the white man, Van Horn went, swashbuckling barelegged through a stronghold of three thousand souls, while his white mate, addicted to schnapps, held the deck of the tiny craft at anchor off shore, and while his black boat's crew, oars in hands, held the whaleboat stern-on to the beach to receive the expected flying leap of the man they served but did not love, and whose head they would eagerly take any time were it not for fear of him.
After that disappointment the ship-keeper waited resentfully for them to clear out of the ship.
"My eyes are none of the best now," returned the old man a little resentfully, "but the time has been when I had a name for my sight!"