Resentment

What is Resentment?


1.

When you do something or make a decision based on pleasing somebody else. The important factor is that the direction you took (the action or decision) was taken only to satisfy the other person and not something you would have normally chosen to do. Regret surfaces and you secrectly hold it against that person. You may or may not take it out on them, but it does eat you up inside.

Emily had always dreamed of moving to the city after college, but her boyfriend was dead-set against it. As a result, she never moved there because she wanted to be with him. She's harbored resentment for him ever since.

See resent, regret, grudge

2.

When you take the poison and expect someone else to die.

By harboring a resentment toward Joe, I was the one bothered by it, not him.

See Kramer

3.

when you get a quiet thought or idea. also can mean an expression of something.

In a few instances resentment flashed across my mother face. then she'd get very calm and explain to us boys that dad loved us.

See Gwen


37

Random Words:

1. A white person, honky, nerd or any variation of that; a mentally hilarious or retarded person Look at that cwaig, he's bein such a..
1. Any item found usually, on the floor of a store, not attached to it's original packaging and without a price tag. Usually dusty and..
1. moniker of prominent Australian graffitiartist active from mid-1980s, mainly in Victoria and South Australia. "check it out, anoth..
Book Banner