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
Jérémie stays on as a guest of the baker’s widow (Catherine Frot), but her son (Jean-Baptiste Durand) resents the prodigal’s return.
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Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2025
Local officials resent Newsom’s efforts to pin responsibility for failure on them.
—Dan Walters, The Mercury News, 3 Mar. 2025
It has been embroiled in its fair share of bureaucracy fights and agency turf wars with chief information officers across government who resented interlopers treading in their agency's systems.
—Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 26 Feb. 2025
Here is a filmmaker who, these days, resents his own audience.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 17 Mar. 2025
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Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2025
Local officials resent Newsom’s efforts to pin responsibility for failure on them.
—Dan Walters, The Mercury News, 3 Mar. 2025
It has been embroiled in its fair share of bureaucracy fights and agency turf wars with chief information officers across government who resented interlopers treading in their agency's systems.
—Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 26 Feb. 2025
Here is a filmmaker who, these days, resents his own audience.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 17 Mar. 2025
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Carmignano, which received DOC status in 1994, is composed of Sangiovese 75%, Cabernet Sauvignon 15%, Canaiolo 5%, Cabernet Franc 5%, giving it a complexity far more expensive Tuscan wines would envy.—
John Mariani,
Forbes,
10 Jan. 2025
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Helly, the most instinctively skeptical and rebellious of the MDR department, is antagonistic toward her outie; her colleague Dylan (Zach Cherry), who now knows his outie is married with children, feels something closer to envy.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
7 Jan. 2025
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The President still begrudges his former protégé for challenging him in the 2024 election.—
Eric Cortellessa,
Time,
27 Mar. 2025
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Turning his back on the Championship does not feel like a choice anyone would begrudge him.—
Beren Cross,
The Athletic,
21 Mar. 2025
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This is the scent for someone who wants to make a statement with a fragrance that feels both familiar and surprising.—
Danielle James,
Vogue,
1 Apr. 2025
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Training convolutional neural networks on paintings in the early 2010s was valuable to computer scientists and entrepreneurs who wanted to improve surveillance technology, though.—
Sonja Drimmer,
Artforum,
1 Apr. 2025
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“Resent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/resent. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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