growing resentment

collocation in English

meaningsofgrowingandresentment

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growing
adjective
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/ˈɡrəʊ.ɪŋ/us
/ˈɡroʊ.ɪŋ/
increasing in size ...
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resentment
noun[C or U]
uk
/rɪˈzent.mənt/us
/rɪˈzent.mənt/
a feeling of anger because you have been forced to accept something that you do ...
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(Definition ofgrowingandresentmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It is likely to causegrowingresentment.
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Is he aware that there isgrowingresentmentabout this?
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At the same time, however, there has beengrowingresentmentabout the burden of rates.
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Thegrowingresentmentexploded in 1850.
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This causes him to harbour agrowingresentmenttoward her.
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I apologise for interrupting again, but the full impact of the information now available is creatinggrowingresentment.
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There isgrowingresentmenton the part of those who have paid against the small minority who are freeloading.
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There isgrowingresentmentbecause the damages which are being awarded are low and apparently founded on no ascertainable principles.
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It is unnecessary for us to talk aboutgrowingresentmentamong taxpayers concerning the amount paid out in supplementary benefits to these people.
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There is agrowingresentmentamong many scientists in the world at the particularisation of atomic energy merely on the explosives side.
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There isgrowingresentmentin my constituency over what is considered to be a "con" trick by a nationalised industry on a group of people.
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In my constituency, there isgrowingresentmentabout plans for thousands of extra houses, which has resulted in many letters in my postbag.
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I believe that there is a great andgrowingresentmentof what they have done, and that they would be prudent to accept the amendment.
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That was clear evidence of thegrowingresentmentin the smaller unions at the way in which the big, unions have been railroading them.
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There wasgrowingresentment, as has been stated before, at the high rate of taxation that people used to have to pay and still have to pay.
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Nevertheless, efforts to paint the candidate as a communist sympathizer backfired in a climate ofgrowingresentmentagainst such allegations.
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While she thought she was doing for the best, her children feels otherwise: agrowingresentmentand hatred for her.
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I believe that the result of this spontaneous response to the call of a general strike was a longgrowingresentmentabout the way the country was being governed.
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