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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
According to Jane, Diddy appeared jaundiced, his gums were gray and hands were shaky from over -consuming alcohol.
—Lauryn Overhultz , Tracy Wright , Maria Paronich, FOXNews.com, 10 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
According to Jane, Diddy appeared jaundiced, his gums were gray and hands were shaky from over -consuming alcohol.
—Lauryn Overhultz , Tracy Wright , Maria Paronich, FOXNews.com, 10 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for jaundiced
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On the other side, Altman and OpenAI—along with Microsoft, OpenAI’s biggest investor—have argued that Musk is merely jealous.—
Ashley Belanger,
ArsTechnica,
30 Apr. 2026
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Secrets is rather jealous of her stay in Pakistan.—
Rob Crilly,
The Washington Examiner,
22 Apr. 2026
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According to Newsweek, the overall score was composed of 80% from survey results, and 20% from social listening analysis, which analyzed media coverage and online discussion to assess whether public sentiment was positive, neutral or negative.—
Finch Walker,
USA Today,
29 Apr. 2026
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The contest aims to challenge negative stereotypes of seagulls, which are often seen as a nuisance, by imitating them, per local network WTV.—
Adam England,
PEOPLE,
29 Apr. 2026
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These Knicks still need to close the Hawks out in hostile territory in Game 6.—
Kristian Winfield,
New York Daily News,
29 Apr. 2026
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Extreme recovery conditions The Asse II mine presents a uniquely hostile environment.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
29 Apr. 2026
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“Jaundiced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jaundiced. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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