Envious
['envɪəs] or ['ɛnvɪəs]
Definition
(a.) Malignant; mischievous; spiteful.
(a.) Feeling or exhibiting envy; actuated or directed by, or proceeding from, envy; -- said of a person, disposition, feeling, act, etc.; jealously pained by the excellence or good fortune of another; maliciously grudging; -- followed by of, at, and against; as, an envious man, disposition, attack; envious tongues.
(a.) Inspiring envy.
(a.) Excessively careful; cautious.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Jealous, disposed to envy.[2]. Grudging.
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Examples
- There are plenty of people to tell you what to do, Archer rejoined, obscurely envious of them. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Religious intolerance and moral accusations are the natural weapons of the envious against the leaders of men. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- She will be quite envious when she hears of Edith having Indian shawls. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- How I was, in a grudging way I have no words for, envious of her grief. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- They will change inches into feet, pounds into bushels, and do other stunts that would make the average schoolboy envious when it comes to arithmetic. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The Collegians were not envious. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The scientist shows no rapture for exalted views; in fact, with an instinct for mediocrity, he is envious and strives for the destruction of the exceptional ma n. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- It makes me envious and miserable;I who have never seen it! Jane Austen. Emma.
- Some of the more active-minded young priests may even cast envious eyes at the king's service. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- His successes were so repeated that no wonder the envious and the vanquished spoke sometimes with bitterness regarding them. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- You are envious, Biddy, and grudging. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- For I was envious of the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- How he should have liked to have returned to the tribe to parade before their envious gaze this wondrous finery. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- This may strike a modern reader as an envious institution, but that was not its essential quality. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We know the man who struck the boy in the envious malice of his heart, because the boy could be merry, and he could not. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
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