The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word RESENTFUL
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More clues leading to the result RESENTFUL
- Suffering nurse left in high dudgeon
- Envious: regularly seen filling up still
- Comfortable about bridge opponents becoming bitter
- English knight tucking into relaxing bitter
- Quiet about men losing head or feeling bitter?
- Bitter, but relaxed about two points
- Placid about extremes of emotion put out
- Soothing cask of Ensign bitter
- Dispatched again — almost the entire lot was bitter
- Travelling nurse felt put out
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The straight part
We know that "high dudgeon" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case high dudgeon = resentful.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does RESENTFUL mean?
RESENTFUL adjective- Inclined to resent, who tends to harbor resentment, when wronged.
- Harboring resentment, full of resentment, at a given moment.