[ adj ] full of or marked by resentment or indignant ill will <adj.all> resentful at the way he was treateda sullen resentful attitude
Resentful \Re*sent"ful\ (-f?l), a. Inclined to resent; easily provoked to anger; irritable. -- {Re*sent"ful*ly}, adv.
"A China with large sections of her people, including her best educated, at odds with the government means trouble with people resentful, reforms stalled and economy stagnant," Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew said after hearing of the initial violence.
But the U.S. also recognizes that it must be flexible despite Russia's current weakness; otherwise, Mr. Yeltsin may encounter resistance to a new arms-reduction pact from his resentful military.
That argument hasn't mollified farm-state governors, who, despite congressional action to ease the farm credit crisis of the 1980s, still are resentful over what they consider a lack of national resolve over their problem.
Japanese young people, meanwhile, seem more overtly nationalistic than their elders, and more resentful of the U.S. and what they see as its bullying ways.
The multinational force was riven with national rivalries and deeply resentful of the predominant role played by US troops outside the UN structure of command. Orders were not obeyed.
"Great for wives of the mafia," groused one resentful French fashion commentator.
But an attorney for one of the defendants said the trial was the result of a bitter feud between those who dominated the geoduck clam industry and resentful divers recruited by the state to build its case.
Thousands of Czechoslovaks openly protested the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion and remain resentful of Moscow for ordering it.
Some Germans were resentful, but to little avail.
They did not seem angry or resentful as we bundled them into the 4x4 for processing and deportation back to Mexico - just hopeless and bone-weary.
But mainly it was style: dismissing proposals for political unity at a European Commuinity summit in Rome last month as a "ragbag," then turning on her resentful, long-suffering deputy, Sir Geoffrey Howe, at a Cabinet meeting.
Many younger, more aggressive self-styled populists remain suspicious and resentful of wealthier, more traditional Republicans.
The arrangement is bound to leave tasteful and talented people like Mr. Fussell resentful and confused.
The Chinese are resentful of Westerners hauling off vestiges of their heritage.
Much of this anger is centered in the West, long resentful of central Canada's domination of politics and the economy, but also the Tories' strongest electoral base.
A generation of Palestinians has been born and grown to adulthood since 1967, resentful of occupation and less intimidated by the might of the Israeli military.
It might even be a good thing so long as it does not make either of them resentful when they fail.
After the election, Jackson sounded resentful of the emphasis being placed on the distance Wilder and Dinkins put between him and their campaigns.
I give them credit for that," Bush said. "I'm trying to do the same thing myself on our side, and we would have been quite resentful if any one of them had started singling out a Republican for criticism.