Sentence examples for resentful manner from inspiring English sources

BEHAVIOR: Well brought up but soon learns to be diffident, saying "Can I help you?" in such a resentful manner that window-shoppers shy away.

Child mode is resentful.

Both had the type of help whose manner hovered between diffident and resentful.

Tells of some of his engaging ways; how he procured him when he was a puppy, his dignified manners toward the neighborhood dogs, most resentful when he comes back from the coiffeurs, fancily clipped and mighty elegant.

Some of the longtime residents are resentful of newcomers, especially of minority background, and are acting in a manner that would be better fitted to the 50's.

Hearings have just been conducted to determine the manner in which a new area code for Manhattan will be imposed on an anxious and resentful public.

His manner, languorous and throwaway, and his accent, ostentatious old upper-class, both suggested a gent chippily entertained by the resentful rest of us.

Many remained resentful.

You are resentful.

His daughters were resentful.

We were resentful.