Synonym: be jealous of, covet. Antonym: gratification, gratify, satisfaction, satisfy. Similar words: envious, envelope, envision, environmental, environmental protection. Meaning: ['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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151. Summary Despite the problems that women students felt, they did not envy their female friends studying other courses.
152. But success in this world seems to breed envy which, in its turn, can breed hostility.
153. She walked with a nose-up sprocket-hipped model-girl gait calculated to provoke maximum envy and resentment.
154. His voice had a freshness that would make many tenors under the age of 40 go green with envy.
155. Generations of Artificers had lovingly serviced and adorned the gun; and Yeremi had felt bitten with envy.
156. Greed, frustration, and envy so easily replace a loving relationship.
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157. Mercedes has achieved sports-car adhesion with a comfort many luxury saloon makers would envy.
158. Because she was so tall and slim all the clothes looked marvellous on her and the other girls would groan their envy.
159. It is a masterpiece of the silversmith's art - a trophy which will be the envy of the other National Associations.
160. He certainly did not envy him his domestic problems or his resulting injuries to soul and face.
161. I feel a stab of envy in spite of myself.
162. Packed three or four to a closet-sized room, students can come to envy the elbow room afforded sardines and cosmonauts.
163. That is what we mean when we say that the Labour party is advocating an envy tax.
164. The country has a low crime rate that is the envy of most other countries.
165. Ralph could only ogle, though, helpless with envy, as Grover baIled up his napkin.
166. The demand for equality and social justice - that everyone must be the same - derives from what was originally envy.
167. But friends who eyed each other all the time, not exactly with envy, but with care to see who got ahead.
168. One of the areas which the social psychology of envy illuminates best is the modem craze for policies of international aid.
169. I was consumed with envy of the young men and women who drifted together through the streets.
170. A mixture of envy and admiration once led fishermen to try to harness the heron's gifts.
171. I admire and envy it because I am devoid of it.
172. By speaking out about envy between women, comedy can play a part in helping us to heal it in ourselves.
173. The book concludes with Artegall subject to the taunts and slanders of the hideous hags Envy and Detraction.
174. They had established an intimacy and an affinity with the ocean which we can still only envy.
175. Many thanks for a first class mag, even if I do go green with envy at some of the kit!
176. Many people who work in offices may identify with her and envy her new working conditions.
177. No longer need he envy his long-dead friend, Martin Fenlon, for having saved the soul of an unrepentant sinner.
178. This game from Infogrames deserves much success and I envy the talents of the programmers concerned.
179. Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining those rewards which the accomplishment may deserve. She is not easily persuaded to believe that the force of merit can be resisted by obstinacy and avarice, or its luster darkened by envy and malignity. Samuel Johnson
180. Dustin had a certain envy of McQueen's looks, self-confidence, physical prowess and rebellious nature.