RESENTFULLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does resentfully mean? 

• RESENTFULLY (adverb)
  The adverb RESENTFULLY has 1 sense:

1. with resentment; in a resentful manner

  Familiarity information: RESENTFULLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESENTFULLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With resentment; in a resentful manner

Context example:

the best doctors would stay resentfully out of the national service, refusing to become the minions of a Minister

Pertainym:

resentful (full of or marked by resentment or indignant ill will)

 Context examples 

“We are not in a way to know what Mr. Bingley likes,” said her mother resentfully, “since we are not to visit.”

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

"Won't come to the hand that's fed 'm all these months," the dog-musher muttered resentfully.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

He had frightened her a little about Mr. Elton; but when she considered that Mr. Knightley could not have observed him as she had done, neither with the interest, nor (she must be allowed to tell herself, in spite of Mr. Knightley's pretensions) with the skill of such an observer on such a question as herself, that he had spoken it hastily and in anger, she was able to believe, that he had rather said what he wished resentfully to be true, than what he knew any thing about.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

“You can now have nothing further to say,” she resentfully answered.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)