envious

How To Use envious In A Sentence

• He can't help but be envious of those in the private sector - there is the great temptation.
• And in such a case envy will be sure to work and boil up to a more than ordinary height, while the envious person frets, and raves, and swells at the plenties and affluence of his abounding neighbour, and (as I may so express it) is even ready to burst with another's fulness. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV.
• It is such a mouth as we can imagine some remorseless inquisitor to have had -- that is, not an inquisitor filled with holy zeal for what he mistakenly thought the cause of Christ demanded, but a spleeny, envious, rancorous shaveling, who tortured men from hatred of their superiority to him, and sheer love of inflicting pain. Andersonville — Volume 1
• Envy and greed were the mainsprings of their creativity; it would have been more accurate if some of them had been called the Envious Young Men.
• Dame Gourlay, with two of her contemporaries, the same who assisted at Alice's late-wake, seated apart upon a flat monument, or "through-stane," sate enviously comparing the shares which had been allotted to them in dividing the dole. The Bride of Lammermoor
• Even then, her silent beauty had received admiring appraisals and envious glances.
• Most teams would cast envious eyes over the pair of them. The Sun
• Many of those who tend to be greedy, envious, and niggardly anyway fall prey to sin.
• We will then walk past the envious eyes of the city to my crib, where we will get down all night long.
• Envious glances were cast at Anne.