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
But this approach made the girls resent each other and didn't improve their behavior.
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Leslie Garisto Pfaff, Parents, 20 Dec. 2025
Neytiri grieves the loss of her home and her tribe and resents Jake for it.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 16 Dec. 2025
Both distrust markets, both want to micromanage industry, both are protectionist, both romanticize manufacturing work and resent the disruptions that come from open global competition.
—Veronique De Rugy, Oc Register, 4 Dec. 2025
And Bush resented the suggestion by some that Dick Cheney was really in charge.
—Dana Taylor, USA Today, 21 Nov. 2025
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While a painter envies the novelist’s ability to inhabit consciousness, or a filmmaker envies the freedom from production costs, artists must be warned that writing carries its own myths and seductive fallacies.—
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DiCaprio, now 51, has built a career many of his peers would envy.—
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But consider it from the perspective of the begrudging founder of a progressive rock institution who would settle for nothing less than total reinvention with each record.—
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The customers didn’t seem to begrudge her this learning curve.—
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If that is what Talamasca wants to be, well, what a blessing!—
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The key to this classic is making sure cook off all the liquid in the summer squash, because no one wants a watery casserole.—
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“Resent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/resent. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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