as in envied
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 resented
Indigenous people who were not enslaved resented being treated like slaves (colonists felt the same).
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Literary Hub, 26 May 2026
No doubt many creeps of the bracket were resented along the way.
—Kansas City Star, 24 May 2026
For a Dodgers team already resented for buying up baseball with its massive payroll, watching its star closer stroll through a cockfighting pit in full uniform feels tailor-made to ignite outrage back home.
—Alejandro Avila Outkick, FOXNews.com, 15 May 2026
Then there is the lifelong contentiousness with her mother, Marluce Martins Perry, a talented Brazilian artist who reluctantly traded her gifts and status for matrimony and child-rearing and resented her family in the wake of her decision.
—A.d. Amorosi, SPIN, 4 May 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
Panamanians increasingly resented having their country split in two by the racially segregated, colony-like zone.
—The Conversation, Fortune, 3 Apr. 2026
Panamanians increasingly resented having their country split in two by the racially segregated, colony-like zone.
—Christine Keiner, The Conversation, 2 Apr. 2026
Literary Hub, 26 May 2026
No doubt many creeps of the bracket were resented along the way.
—Kansas City Star, 24 May 2026
For a Dodgers team already resented for buying up baseball with its massive payroll, watching its star closer stroll through a cockfighting pit in full uniform feels tailor-made to ignite outrage back home.
—Alejandro Avila Outkick, FOXNews.com, 15 May 2026
Then there is the lifelong contentiousness with her mother, Marluce Martins Perry, a talented Brazilian artist who reluctantly traded her gifts and status for matrimony and child-rearing and resented her family in the wake of her decision.
—A.d. Amorosi, SPIN, 4 May 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
Panamanians increasingly resented having their country split in two by the racially segregated, colony-like zone.
—The Conversation, Fortune, 3 Apr. 2026
Panamanians increasingly resented having their country split in two by the racially segregated, colony-like zone.
—Christine Keiner, The Conversation, 2 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for resented
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But compared to their predecessors and others in the region, this new generation of Gulf leaders offers a model of modernity that is envied and increasingly emulated throughout the Arab world.—
Thomas L. Friedman,
Mercury News,
15 May 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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Alberto Mendoza hasn’t begrudged the attention his brother has received this season.—
Michael Butler,
Miami Herald,
20 Jan. 2026
Verb
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To this end, the team decided to set out to find a path to steer the plastic breakdown process towards the exact molecules wanted.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
6 June 2026
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Dubón is exactly what Anthopoulos wanted after the Braves adjusted their approach to backups.—
Ken Sugiura,
AJC.com,
6 June 2026
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“Resented.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/resented. Accessed 12 Jun. 2026.
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