as in resentment
a painful awareness of another's possessions or advantages and a desire to have them too
her jealousy over her sister's singing career drove the two of them apart
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Recent Examples of jealousy
Fed Up in Arizona Dear Fed Up: Your boyfriend isn’t likely to overcome his jealousy of your son.
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Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 27 Dec. 2025
Some part of Baudelaire’s lifelong free-spending and indolence seems to be a direct rebellion against the man, if not outright Freudian jealousy—Charles was an unabashed mama’s boy.
—Literary Hub, 22 Dec. 2025
Keōua is a force of pure aggression and chaos, and Curtis gives him the very mortal qualities of pettiness and jealousy to round out a fantastic villain.
—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
Asuka and Sane turned on Sky out of jealousy due to her friendship with Ripley.
—Fernando Quiles Jr, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for jealousy
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That long-simmering resentment has also helped lead to the national sense of fury and crisis.—
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Nora, a volatile actress struggling with crippling stage fright, is consumed by deep resentment over her father’s abandonment.—
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The half-cent sales tax has generated billions in funding, turning a capital program that was once in disrepair into the envy of the state of Florida.—
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But the company took care of its workers and created a community that was the envy of many.—
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When Erika desires to celebrate with other fans in the city, tensions build during the match, and Erika becomes a target for misplaced hatred when the game takes a turn for the worse.—
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His loathing for totalitarianism was among the very few hatreds Reagan ever held, his biographer Edmund Morris said.—
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“Jealousy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jealousy. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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