Word: resenter
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...feel that to consult with an Ecuadorian about the programs that will take place here is to deal with him democratically, while insisting that the ultimate decision making power must remain with North Americans. Not only has this attitude communicated itself to Ecuadorians and caused many of them to resent the Peace Corps: it has proved to be remarkably inefficient. For it blinds the organization's programmers to the local conditions they need to understand, and deafens them to the opinions local people set forth about the best way to work here...
Europeans, and others, often resent what they consider American arrogance. "However much I like the Americans," says a Dane, "I must admit that they suffer from a kind of superman mentality." Europeans also resent the fact that U.S. firms deal brusquely or not at all with trade unions, discontinue such traditions as the German breakfast break on company time or the Spanish siesta, and, unlike paternalistic European firms, lay off workers in recessions. When ITT recently considered buying Belgium's second best football team in order to get its stadium for employee recreation, cynical Belgians quickly predicted that...
...society where some pepole desperately want and need them, while others fear and resent them, they have perforce to become diplomats without portfolio, in a language in which they feel awkward, among customs easily and unkowingly violated. They can take nothing for granted, not the promises of officials, nor the smiles of their co-workers, nor yet their own reaction to occasions of betrayal, disappointment, or misunderstanding of their work...
Whatever my feelings about Professor Galbraith's protest movement, I resent his proposal that students organize to coerce me into joining it. And I hope nobody stays away from Professor Galbraith's classes in a vain organized attempt to embarrass him into changing his politics. T. C. Schelling Professor of Economics
There is ample evidence that people in the ghetto are aware that they are often bilked-and resent it more than a little. During the 1965 Watts riots, five supermarkets of one chain, in bad odor with local residents, were burned to the ground, while three markets of another chain, which was considered fair, were spared. The chain grocers are now clearly in the spotlight and under duress to do better for the poor...