as in to envy
to have a resentful awareness of and desire for (another's possessions or advantages) or to feel resentment toward (someone) over possessions or advantages
a public prosecutor who resents the nice clothes, fancy car, and big house that his old law school classmate has always resented her baby brother, whom her parents doted on
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Recent Examples of resent
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.
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Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2026
But for the most part Walt resented these wartime necessities.
—Literary Hub, 14 Apr. 2026
The letter writer resented that a friend’s teenage son was uncommunicative, seemingly rude and wore headphones at joint family dinners.
—R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 13 Apr. 2026
The letter writer resented that one of her friend’s teenage sons was uncommunicative, seemingly rude and wore headphones at joint family dinners.
—R. Eric Thomas, Denver Post, 13 Apr. 2026
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Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2026
But for the most part Walt resented these wartime necessities.
—Literary Hub, 14 Apr. 2026
The letter writer resented that a friend’s teenage son was uncommunicative, seemingly rude and wore headphones at joint family dinners.
—R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 13 Apr. 2026
The letter writer resented that one of her friend’s teenage sons was uncommunicative, seemingly rude and wore headphones at joint family dinners.
—R. Eric Thomas, Denver Post, 13 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for resent
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That’s a schedule most touring musicians would envy — and Pearl’s the one playing the keyboard.—
Hanna Wickes,
Sacbee.com,
16 Apr. 2026
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But really, what these friends envied most was Petrarch’s fame.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 Apr. 2026
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Shitty roads, shitty hotel rooms, shitty food, shitty promoters who begrudged them shitty dressing rooms and shittier sound systems.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 Apr. 2026
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While ReedPop is pressing on with BookCon despite that response from some, Rogers says the convention organizer does not begrudge those who have made this choice.—
Jennifer Maas,
Variety,
17 Apr. 2026
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So don’t want to set him up for any wild comparisons or anything like that.—
Doug Kyed,
Boston Herald,
24 Apr. 2026
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To increase local storage, Reznik wants to see more smaller and mid-size projects in the San Fernando Valley and South LA, such as removing hardscape like blacktop from schools and parks and creating more green space.—
Steve Scauzillo,
Daily News,
24 Apr. 2026
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“Resent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/resent. Accessed 30 Apr. 2026.
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