as in resenting
to have a resentful awareness of and desire for (another's possessions or advantages) or to feel resentment toward (someone) over possessions or advantages
her coworkers envied her chummy relationship with the senior vice president they envied him because he didn't have to work for a living
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Recent Examples of envying
Compare your inside with other people’s outside, envying others’ success without having a full picture of their lives.
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Big Think, 9 Oct. 2025
Big Think, 9 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for envying
resenting
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Each character has totally justified and totally unjustified reasons for resenting one another, and the sensation of absorbing those contrasting opinions is like being in a stuck bumper car, barraged and battered from all sides.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
16 Apr. 2026
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At the time, many people who had previously toiled in the fields shifted to working long shifts in cramped, and often dangerous manufacturing and textile facilities while increasingly resenting the industrialists who owned the factories.—
Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez,
Fortune,
14 Apr. 2026
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“Envying.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/envying. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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