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
Communicate healthy expectations Demanding that your child earn certain grades and reach certain notable achievements can backfire: Your kid may grow to resent you, or become too much of a mentally unhealthy perfectionist, said Stixrud.
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Tom Huddleston Jr., CNBC, 9 Apr. 2025
Bethany is a big, flashing signal of gentrification; Uche’s other tenants have every reason to resent her.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 4 Apr. 2025
So while other Florida voters are entitled to resent Trump’s meddling, DeSantis doesn’t have a leg to stand on in complaining about it.
—Orlando Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2025
If any people have legitimate reasons to resent Americans, Cambodians do.
—Carter Popkin, Chicago Tribune, 28 Mar. 2025
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Tom Huddleston Jr., CNBC, 9 Apr. 2025
Bethany is a big, flashing signal of gentrification; Uche’s other tenants have every reason to resent her.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 4 Apr. 2025
So while other Florida voters are entitled to resent Trump’s meddling, DeSantis doesn’t have a leg to stand on in complaining about it.
—Orlando Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2025
If any people have legitimate reasons to resent Americans, Cambodians do.
—Carter Popkin, Chicago Tribune, 28 Mar. 2025
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Together, these provide a wealth of data that any neuroscientist would envy — analogous to a perfect map of a person’s brain, along with separate electrodes to monitor the activity of each neuron.—
Ben Brubaker,
Quanta Magazine,
30 Apr. 2025
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No one to observe the lovers, no one to envy the middle-aged man with the much younger girl taking a romantic (if windy) walk along the beach at Cape May in December.—
Joyce Carol Oates,
The New Yorker,
16 Mar. 2025
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The begrudging foster father, played by Pedro Pascal, was killed by newcomer Abby (Kaitlyn Dever) in the second episode of the show’s second season.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
21 Apr. 2025
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But it would be misguided to begrudge the show its creative license, and specifically its refusal to fixate on the bureaucratic nightmare that is being gravely ill in America, when so many of its enormous swings connect.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
27 Mar. 2025
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One month later, the bank reopened the second round for bidders, and Earle and her husband wanted to visit the house again.—
Meredith Wilshere,
People.com,
19 May 2025
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But what Ellie really wants is adult responsibilities.—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
19 May 2025
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“Resent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/resent. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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