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Ned Resents Contrived Affection Crossword Clue

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noun

• a tendency to express warm and affectionate feeling

• a pain that is felt (as when the area is touched)

• warm compassionate feelings

• a positive feeling of liking

• a feeling of concern for the welfare of someone (especially someone defenseless)

33%11 Teacher resents planners
noun

• someone who creates new things

• someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality

verb

• plan and direct (a complex undertaking)

33%10 Criminal resents CIA's lack of co-operation
noun

• the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with

• any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion

• a material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms

• the military action of resisting the enemy's advance

• (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease

• the capacity of an organism to defend itself against harmful environmental agents

• a secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force

• the degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria)

• (psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness

• an electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current

• group action in opposition to those in power

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