NOUN
- a feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something that is possessed by another
How To Use enviousness In A Sentence
- Actually, there is a bit of enviousness, or what we call, I don't know what is the English word for it, but it is like gloating. CNN Transcript Dec 10, 2009
- The cottager whose pearl Colin had come down to inspect, slapped the farmer on the back, and without a trace of enviousness -- for he himself had been lucky -- joined in his delight. The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries
- But when I think of Gibson and Boyce, I don ` t know them, but I also wonder if they interpreted events very negatively, felt diminished, snubbed, enviousness in fact didn ` t motivate some of this as well. CNN Transcript May 1, 2008
- She kept her eyes on me, and repeated with a sort of whimsical enviousness: The Arrow of Gold
- The fruit of love of God produces peace, compassion, non-enviousness for all beings, and tolerance, to name but a few of by-products. TEXAS FAITH: Has the God-and-candidates connection gone too far? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
- It's nothing but enviousness," he said in a lowered tone, which had a stimulating effect upon my wearied hearing. Falk; Amy Foster; To-Morrow
- They tell us, also, that Catulus himself alleged this in vindication of his honor, accusing, in various ways, the enviousness of Marius. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
- So I think there's a spirit of enviousness or perhaps competition. Oral History Interview with Raymond, Eunice, Wayne, and Charles Russell English, December 8, 1999. Interview K-0280. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)