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Sentence count:231+16Posted:2016-08-11Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: be jealous ofcovetAntonym: gratificationgratifysatisfactionsatisfySimilar words: enviousenvelopeenvisionenvironmentalenvironmental protectionMeaning: ['envɪ]  n. 1. a feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something that is possessed by another 2. spite and resentment at seeing the success of another (personified as one of the deadly sins). v. 1. feel envious towards; admire enviously 2. be envious of; set one's heart on. 
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121. Their employers were quick to stoke up popular envy through the press if players even temporarily forgot their good fortune.
122. No longer will high status evoke deference and admiration or envy and resentment from those in less worthy positions.
123. It's been too much trouble for me to envy you overmuch.
124. Other women took one look at them, and went green with envy.
125. Aggression and violence can escalate when jealousy and envy grow in a competitive atmosphere.
126. She felt a stirring of envy at this unknown woman.
127. Others will see how happy we are and envy us,[www.Sentencedict.com] as they already have.
128. A symbol of what his children can and still do to each other because of greed, envy and anger.
129. Such acts, he said, only served envy and the ambition of enraged parties or satisfied the cravings of lust.
130. The result was low inflation, job creation that was the envy of the developed world, and general prosperity.
131. This fantasy was not fuelled by disinterested speculation but by envy.
132. The price of success is to bear the criticism of envyDenis Waitley 
133. Instantly alert, we trotted out after our bailiff and sensed the envy of those left to wait.
134. I suppose I envy you, piecing together old Ash's world-picture.
135. The poor viewed with envy the increasing wealth of the bourgeoisie.
136. Leven has a playing field second to none which is the envy of many villages in the area.
137. Some might envy his position down in Ca Mau, precisely because nothing was happening.
138. Educators, meanwhile, often view business with more than a little suspicion, distrust, and envy.
139. Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead. Mark Twain 
140. She's aye the envy of every other girl on the island.
141. Envy was a civilised emotion, attendant upon some degree of security and the possession of things strictly unnecessary to survival.
142. And the one here, even incomplete, is the envy of all.
143. I love watching the kids romp and in fact as I watch them I realize how much I envy them.
144. People looked at her nervously - women with unconcealed envy, men with a hard appraising stare.
145. Thrilled by the beauty of the scene, she had sometimes felt a twinge of envy for the people on board.
146. Envy blinds men and makes it impossible for them to think clearly. Malcolm X 
147. Few men have the Natural strength to honour a friend's success without envyAeschylus 
148. Romanov felt a twinge of envy at the thought that he could never hope to live in such style.
149. He had no one to envy, for life had been good to him, especially considering his humble beginnings.
150. Before you get green with envy, I had to do a lot of stuff that wasn't so glamorous, too.
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