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as in jealous
having or showing mean resentment of another's possessions or advantages
took a jaundiced view of his opponent's triumphs on the tennis court
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as in negative
marked by opposition or ill will
environmentalists tend to cast a jaundiced eye on those oversized, gas-guzzling vehicles
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Recent Examples of jaundiced
Though undeniably popular, social media is regarded now with an increasingly jaundiced eye, as the suits against Meta have proved.
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Culture Critic, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2026
But the carpet of gold on the roadside is a sign of a jaundiced landscape.
—Shi En Kim, AZCentral.com, 13 Mar. 2026
By contrast, Murtha holds a much more jaundiced view of the NCAA, accusing the organization of deliberately undercutting his request.
—Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 3 Mar. 2026
Mean-spiritedness lies in the eye of the beholder: one person’s aggressively sour-minded movie is another’s idea of delightfully jaundiced fun, and no movie this year proves that as aptly as Josh Safdie’s two-and-a-half-hour loop-de-loop character study Marty Supreme.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 1 Dec. 2025
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Culture Critic, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2026
But the carpet of gold on the roadside is a sign of a jaundiced landscape.
—Shi En Kim, AZCentral.com, 13 Mar. 2026
By contrast, Murtha holds a much more jaundiced view of the NCAA, accusing the organization of deliberately undercutting his request.
—Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 3 Mar. 2026
Mean-spiritedness lies in the eye of the beholder: one person’s aggressively sour-minded movie is another’s idea of delightfully jaundiced fun, and no movie this year proves that as aptly as Josh Safdie’s two-and-a-half-hour loop-de-loop character study Marty Supreme.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 1 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for jaundiced
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In other words, billionaires being jealous of other billionaires.—
Jim Alexander,
Oc Register,
29 May 2026
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In India, classical knowledge was the jealous preserve of the Brahmanic caste.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
26 May 2026
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In a striking shift, White voters without college degrees that voted to reelect Trump by a huge margin are now net-negative on his job approval.—
Hannah Knowles,
Washington Post,
28 May 2026
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From Xi Jinping’s quest to regain China’s glory, to Vladimir Putin’s attempts at a new Russian empire, to the rise of populist anti-foreign attitudes in the United States, Britain, Germany, and France, negative views of others underpin many of the conflicts in today’s world.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 May 2026
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That means unlocking our vast energy resources, expanding production, building pipelines, approving infrastructure and increasing exports to allies who need reliable alternatives to hostile regimes.—
Steve Forbes,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2026
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The one major exception is agriculture — and that policy has historical roots dating back to World War II, when the Swiss learned the hard way that food security matters for small countries surrounded by hostile powers.—
Richard W. Rahn,
Fortune,
27 May 2026
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“Jaundiced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jaundiced. Accessed 3 Jun. 2026.
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