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[ UK /ˈɛnvɪəs/ ]
[ US /ˈɛnviəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. showing extreme cupidity; painfully desirous of another's advantages
    he was never covetous before he met her
    envious of their art collection
    jealous of his success and covetous of his possessions

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.
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