envious

IPA: ˈɛnviʌs

adjective

  • Feeling or exhibiting envy; jealously desiring the excellence or good fortune of another; maliciously grudging
  • Excessively careful; cautious.
  • (obsolete) Malignant; mischievous; spiteful.
  • (obsolete, poetic) Inspiring envy.
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Examples of "envious" in Sentences

  • And that orcs, as you view them, are envious is not a justification but another flaw. (
  • The dissonance of it is mellifluous; I'm envious, which is a sign I'm not as humble as he.
  • In Dante’s Purgatory, the punishment for the envious is to have their eyes sewn shut with wire because they have gained sinful pleasure from seeing others brought low.
  • None the less, he did all he could, and his preachings are full of accusations and invective against the wise of the world, for he thus called the envious and those who opposed his doctrines.
  • William Dembski calls envious attention to the funding (reportedly $25M) by NSF of the BEACON (Bio/computational Evolution in Action CONsortium ) project, a multi-institutional consortium that is intended
  • Whilst they were represented by their votaries as excelling in beauty and activity, strength and intelligence, they were at the same time described as envious and gluttonous, base, lustful, and revengeful.

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