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 Translation for 'resentment' from English to Portuguese
NOUN1   resentment | -
NOUN2   a resentment | resentments
SYNO bitterness | gall | rancor | ...
rancor {m}resentment
ressentimento {m}resentment
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Translation for 'resentment' from English to Portuguese

resentment
rancor {m}

ressentimento {m}
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Usage Examples English
  • This work analyzes resentment towards things American in seven European countries.
  • Conservative journalist Fred Siegel considered the worldview expressed therein to be rooted in resentment of America's middle class.
  • This fueled resentment in the state and the rest of the country.
  • He is moved to do this because of his concerns that the Duncan Brothers cheated to get a White House performance and he feels resentment over their success.
  • All anger and resentment rebound on the person who generates them, and they do nothing to eliminate harms that one has already experienced.

  • By now, the aggressive attitude of the club both on and off the field had created resentment toward the club.
  • Resentment has also been conceptualized as a form of "protest": "More specifically, resentment protests a past action, that persists as a present threat".
  • Murad is critical of Western foreign policy for fueling anger and resentment in the Muslim world.
  • "Han" is derived from the Chinese character 恨, which means resentment, hatred, or regret.
  • DeSante in 2019 developed "How Racial Empathy Moderates White Identity and Racial Resentment".

  • In 1980, Lennon stated: "I used my resentment against Paul … to create a song … not a terrible vicious horrible vendetta … I used my resentment and withdrawing from Paul and The Beatles, and the relationship with Paul, to write 'How Do You Sleep'.
  • According to a Polish police chief, the consequential wealth experienced by some Roma in the early 1990s possibly contributed to resentment by the Polish, as between 1990 and 1991 Poland experienced a decline in its ‘national income’ by 13% and an annual inflation rate of 585%.
  • Although details are scarce, several sources have suggested that Wang's resentment against Bo grew amidst the investigations—resentment that was compounded when Wang realized that he and his wife had also been targets of wiretapping under Bo's orders.
  • Rimmer's attempts to revise for a further exam go badly, and after the other three crew members best him in a question about moose-related car accidents in the 1970s Sweden, Rimmer's light bee crashes due to a buildup of "resentment".
  • Food inflation and salaries were a cause for resentment in the country.

  • Solomon places contempt on the same continuum as resentment and anger, and he argues that the differences between the three are that resentment is anger directed towards a higher-status individual; anger is directed towards an equal-status individual; and contempt is anger directed towards a lower-status individual.
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