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resentfully

Doing or saying something in a bitter, angry way, especially when you feel you've been treated unfairly, is to do it resentfully. If you get a bigger piece of cake than your brother does, he may glare resentfully in your direction.

When you're resentful, you're indignant or spiteful — and to act this way is to behave resentfully. When you feel bullied into doing something, you'll do it resentfully. And, if you know your grandmother gave your sister a new laptop for her birthday, you might accept your gift — a magazine subscription — resentfully. This adverb comes from resent, "feel bitterness or indignation at."

Definitions of resentfully
  1. adverb
    with resentment; in a resentful manner
    “the best doctors would stay resentfully out of the national service, refusing to become the minions of a Minister”
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