Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being envious.
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- noun The state of being
envious
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- noun a feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something that is possessed by another
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Examples
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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.
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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 2009
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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.
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She kept her eyes on me, and repeated with a sort of whimsical enviousness:
The Arrow of Gold 2006
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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 Plutarch 2003
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So I think there's a spirit of enviousness or perhaps competition.
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"It's nothing but enviousness," he said in a lowered tone, which had a stimulating effect upon my wearied hearing.
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She kept her eyes on me, and repeated with a sort of whimsical enviousness:
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She kept her eyes on me, and repeated with a sort of whimsical enviousness:
The Arrow of Gold 1919
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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 Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918
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