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resentfully

[ UK /ɹɪsˈɛntfəli/ ]
ADVERB
  1. 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

How To Use resentfully In A Sentence

  • When his mother abandoned the family when he was four, two aunts were reluctantly and resentfully compelled to raise Billy and his older sister, Florence.
  • It's a job I'll do for as long as it takes to actually find the right job and at that point I'll quit and leave them scrambling, resentfully, to find my replacement.
  • For a moment she continued to look at him resentfully.
  • The angry mood suggests too many people will be going to the polls resentfully.
  • But most residents are still too emotionally bruised to do anything except stare resentfully from a distance.
  • I imagined what we must look like to the Hezbollah men crouched resentfully in their tents: two unveiled women, one of them eating pink cotton candy and wearing a cherry-red jacket; one cranky old hajji, barely able to walk, supported by her son, who seemed to have brought her to the tent city expressly so she could parade through and tell them they were bums. Day of Honey
  • He had often looked with wonder at the rock, and miauled bitterly and resentfully as man does in the face of a forbidding Providence. Cat.
  • the best doctors would stay resentfully out of the national service, refusing to become the minions of a Minister
  • The men talk about him resentfully, sick of his haughty attitude and pretension.
  • And as if their alienism disturbed him, he moved restlessly, almost resentfully, bit his lips nervously, moistened them, and began putting away his things. Lifted Masks; stories
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