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Envy

noun

(pl. envies)

A feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something that is possessed by another. Synonym: enviousness.

Spite and resentment at seeing the success of another (personified as one of the deadly sins). Synonym: invidia.

verb

(past & past part. envied; pres. part. envying)

Feel envious towards; admire enviously.

Be envious of; set one's heart on. Synonym: begrudge.

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"Envy" Quotes from Famous Books

... the very best. It must not be supposed that Wesley did not feel this isolation. There is a sadness about the strain in which he wrote to Benson in 1770. 'Whatever I say, it will be all one. They will find fault because I say it. There is implicit envy at my power (so called) and jealousy therefrom.' Wesley was not demonstrative, but he was a man of strong affections and acute feelings, and he felt his loneliness, and more so than ever after the death of his brother Charles. There is a touching story ...

— The English Church in the Eighteenth Century • Charles J. Abbey and John H. Overton

... hell! Woman, from LeFroy down, you have collected about you as pretty a gang of cut-throats and outlaws as could have been found in all the North. Lapierre has seen to that. I do not envy you your school. But as long as you can be turned to their profit your personal safety will be assured. They are too cunning, by far, to kill the goose that ...

— The Gun-Brand • James B. Hendryx

... and by you'll begin to look about you for things to help—I mean hospitals and charities, and all that. The only time when I envy great wealth is when I see some wrong which money can right. Mr. Fordyce is a lawyer, but not a very famous one—he's only twenty-eight; and while we are likely to have all we really need, we can't begin to do what we'd like to do for others. I suppose ...

— Money Magic - A Novel • Hamlin Garland

... Brand answered, "I was pondering upon the inequalities of life. Yesterday I was a King, and a most uncomfortable position it was! To-day you are King—and"—he glanced at Marie—"it is a trial to one's disposition to refrain from envy." ...

— The Traitors • E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

... poison of our social system had so saturated her nature—his evening dress, his freedom and his money had seemed so fine to her and I so clothed in squalor—that to that prospect she had consented. And to resent the social conventions that created their situation, was called "class envy," and gently born preachers reproached us for the mildest resentment against an injustice no living man would now either endure ...

— In the Days of the Comet • H. G. Wells

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