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resented

verb

past tense of resent

as in envied

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 resented Endlessly mocked, constantly parodied, and vaguely resented, the mandarins in American civic life have no real allies or admirers. — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 4 July 2026 Lestat’s mother, Gabriella (Jennifer Ehle), now a vampire, too, resented Nicky’s physical and mental weakness, and Lestat found himself in a twisted love triangle with the obsessive Armand and the increasingly unwell Nicky. — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 23 June 2026 Lower Manhattan businesses resented the frequent disruptions, and some New Yorkers saw the celebrations as rote and manufactured. — Jennifer Peltz, Fortune, 17 June 2026 According to prosecutors' opening statements June 10, the wildfire that ravaged Los Angeles' affluent Pacific Palisades neighborhood was part of a vengeful plot from a man who resented the wealthy. — Swasti Singhai, USA Today, 12 June 2026 Indigenous people who were not enslaved resented being treated like slaves (colonists felt the same). — Literary Hub, 26 May 2026 No doubt many creeps of the bracket were resented along the way. — Kansas City Star, 24 May 2026 For a Dodgers team already resented for buying up baseball with its massive payroll, watching its star closer stroll through a cockfighting pit in full uniform feels tailor-made to ignite outrage back home. — Alejandro Avila Outkick, FOXNews.com, 15 May 2026 Then there is the lifelong contentiousness with her mother, Marluce Martins Perry, a talented Brazilian artist who reluctantly traded her gifts and status for matrimony and child-rearing and resented her family in the wake of her decision. — A.d. Amorosi, SPIN, 4 May 2026

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The sprawling business model that competitors once envied had become a liability—unwieldy, capital-intensive, and increasingly unable to compete in focused, fast-moving markets.

— Shawn Tully, Fortune, 23 July 2026
Al Davis would’ve envied how much head space Argentina occupies in the soccer world.

— Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 July 2026

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