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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
By contrast, Murtha holds a much more jaundiced view of the NCAA, accusing the organization of deliberately undercutting his request.
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Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 3 Mar. 2026
Authors from Evelyn Waugh and Nancy Mitford to Edward St. Aubyn have portrayed the ruling classes with the jaundiced eye of a skeptical insider.
—Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2025
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
Mackenzie first underwent a Kasai procedure to remove the blockage, but remained jaundiced and had trouble gaining weight.
—Charles Trepany, USA Today, 16 June 2025
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Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 3 Mar. 2026
Authors from Evelyn Waugh and Nancy Mitford to Edward St. Aubyn have portrayed the ruling classes with the jaundiced eye of a skeptical insider.
—Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2025
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
Mackenzie first underwent a Kasai procedure to remove the blockage, but remained jaundiced and had trouble gaining weight.
—Charles Trepany, USA Today, 16 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for jaundiced
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The theorist Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick examined the extent to which jealous imitation drives all manner of same-sex relations, straight and gay.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
27 Mar. 2026
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Seeing a former flame with someone else brings out a jealous bitterness that eats at Lou, which is hard not to relate to as a millennial audience member with a heart.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
17 Mar. 2026
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Court records and large-scale studies indicate that elite colleges’ race-aware and holistic admissions systems have operated as a negative factor for Asian American applicants, contributing to lower admission/attendance odds than similarly qualified white applicants.—
David Blobaum,
Chicago Tribune,
1 Apr. 2026
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Apple’s latest iPhone software update is drawing attention—some of which is negative—not just for its incremental upgrades, but also for a shift in how users interact with one of its core apps.—
Thomas Westerholm,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Apr. 2026
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The 45th president’s victory in the crowded 2016 primary effectively toppled the existing Republican Establishment, injecting the party with a combination of populism and distrust that was especially hostile to the way things were done before.—
Alex J. Rouhandeh,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Apr. 2026
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Customers will keep fighting back with dirty returns, unused reservations and hostile reviews.—
Christopher Elliott,
USA Today,
31 Mar. 2026
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“Jaundiced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jaundiced. Accessed 3 Apr. 2026.
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