resent someone?

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The situation is A left B behind and B got hurt unattended.
I want to say to A that B must be resenting you.
Is this proper expression?
I want to say it casually. So pleaee share your opinion on the proper usage. I have come up with several other options:
He must be not happy with your action that you had left him earlier.
He must have hard feelings on you.
He must have hard feelings against you.
He must blame you for your doing.
He must have resented you.

Also because of what happened to B, B is not seeing A since.

If there is any gramatical incorrectness, please let me know.
Thank you guys!

AlpheccaStars · Accepted Answer

naldoThe situation is A left B behind and B got hurt unattended.

'Unattended" is used for children or possessions. It means no one is guarding or watching them. eg.

Unattended luggage will be taken to a safe room and destroyed.
Do not leave young children in the playground unattended. Someone must watch them.

" To leave behind" means not to take something with you. eg.

He got wet in the rain because he had left his umbrella behind in the car when he went shopping.

So I do not understand your situation with A and B. Please give a better example. It helps to use names rather that A, B and C.

For example:
John's wife, Mary, was left behind at the party. John left the party with another woman. Mary had to ask her friend Jane for a ride home.

I said to Mary, "You must be very angry at John. He treated you very badly. I would be angry, too. If he does it again, I would consider filing for divorce."

Naldo · Answer

Thank you AlpheccaStars,
What i wanted to express was a feeling that is not angry but more of blaming someone.
I made up a situation and it was not clear.
Sorry.

Here is another example that I hope makes more sence; Ted and Joe attended a same high school and became friends. Ted was rich and Joe was poor. Ted had bad friends and naturally Joe got along with them, too. However, Ted cut friendship with those bad guys and studied hard to enter an university. On the other hand, Joe was a good student before but became to have a poor record in school. He failed to go to univerity. Now he partly blames Ted for his fail. He think if Ted had had not introduced him the bad guys he would have stayed as a good boy and been accepted more than a couple of universities.

In this situation, Ted is not responsible for Joe's poor school performance actually, but Joe regrets and thinks over again that what if Ted had had not introduced those bad guys to him.

So Joe has uncomfortable feeling towards Ted and stop seeing Ted since he received notice of admission fail.

You heard this story and became sympathetic to Joe, (i know thos example is messy but lets put it this way...) then how would you express your sympathetic feeling?

Is He must be blaming Ted. He must be resenting Ted. ok?
I want to express some nuiance like "you must be angry", but not "angry" feeling but more of showing regret againt other persons deed.

AlpheccaStars · Answer

Here is another example that I hope makes more sense. Ted and Joe attended the same high school and became friends. Ted was rich and Joe was poor. Ted had bad friends and naturally Joe got along with them, too. However, Ted cut off his relationships with those bad guys and studied hard to enter an university. On the other hand, Joe had been a good student ~~before~~ but he was led astray by Joe's friends and that caused him to have a poor record in school. He failed to go to university. Now he partly blames Ted for his failures. He thinks that if Ted had had not introduced him to the bad guys he would have done well in school ~~stayed as a good boy~~ and been accepted more than a couple of universities.

In this situation, Ted is not responsible for Joe's poor school performance actually, but Joe regrets and thinks over again that what if Ted had had not introduced those bad guys to him.

So Joe has uncomfortable feelings towards Ted and has stop seeing Ted since he received notices of ~~admission fail.~~rejection.

You heard this story and became sympathetic to Joe, (I know this example is messy but let's put it this way...) then how would you express your sympathetic feeling?

I feel somewhat sorry for Joe's predicament, but it is all actually his fault, not Ted's. It was his choice to be deceived by bad characters. It was his choice to get bad grades. He should have done the same as Ted and broken off all his relationships with those bad actors.

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