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ressentiment
[ French ruh-sahn-tee-mahn ]
noun
- any cautious, defeatist, or cynical attitude based on the belief that the individual and human institutions exist in a hostile or indifferent universe or society.
- an oppressive awareness of the futility of trying to improve one's status in life or in society.
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of ressentiment1
Example Sentences
His mixture of insult, ressentiment, and buffoonery is a work of genius.
Television and music, monuments and memorials have all been prime levers of a political project, a campaign of cultural ressentiment and national rebirth, that culminated this May on the blue-green carpets beneath Hagia Sophia’s dome.
"Redistribution" is a bad word, reeking of ressentiment, only to be applied to measures that would benefit the lower three-quarters of the population.
In life if not in his philosophy, the ressentiment of those nursing a grievance is often directed downward, from those who have little to those who have less.
By stoking ressentiment and algorithmically-driven marketing that pressures deliberating citizens to become impulse-buying consumers, Trump ushered millions into a political twilight zone where democracy is suspended by strongmen.
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