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• n  a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will

• Pervasive upward mobility may help explain why India is reasonably free of social resentment.
• Most movie characters have a need to get somewhere else, but Winslet women usually proceed from an enveloping restlessness, a resentment of the status quo.
• For this, the level of resentment and ire directed at Goldman from Congress, from competitors, from the media, from the public has never been higher.

• bitterness
• gall
• rancor
• rancour

News & Articles

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• Unwelcome Innovation Earns Gamers’ Jeers
  At E3, a video game trade show where novelty is prized, Microsoft drew resentment for its plans to monitor gamers’ use of resold games.
  June 14, 2013 - New York Times
• UN Envoy: 'Streets Are Heating Up' in South Yemen
  UN envoy: Resentment in southern Yemen over unmet grievances is reaching 'a tipping point'        
  June 11, 2013 - ABC News
• Resentment felt toward host town over racino plans
  Anger and resentment spilled over last week as Plainville officials and representatives from neighboring communities clashed over a proposed slot parlor at Plainridge Racecourse.        
  June 9, 2013 - Boston Globe

Quotes

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• Bronislaw Komorowski in Sydney Morning Herald
  You have the choice between a politician who harbours resentment and grudges, and the future, with an optimistic vision of Poland,said Komorowski, 58, at a rally.
• Barack Obama in The Australian
  What happened on Bloody Sunday strengthened the Provisional IRA, increased (Irish) nationalist resentment and hostility towards the army, and exacerbated the violent conflict of the years that followed. Bloody Sunday was a tragedy for the bereaved... Mark Saville, Baron Saville of Newdigate http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Saville,_Baron_Saville_of_Newdigate&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHlq2vv-W6Ai_611xAFDVV1XU8sqA The Associated Press http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hTkEcW4ONeS6VQDYq3rRitwSdcnAD9GBRK100&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGpTq_eJNWmyQ2FAuNl1DlCKOIBtw Jun 15, 2010 83011 110599 resentment We can't continue the drift, with the increased fear and resentment on both sides, the sense of hopelessness around the situation that we've seen for many years now," Mr Obama said. "We need to get this thing back on track."