Wanting what someone else has and resenting them for having it is envy. If your best friend comes to school with the silver backpack you’d had your eye on all summer, you want to be happy for her, instead you feel bitter envy.
imp. & p. p.
of Envy
Usage Examples
In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.
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Other Usage ExamplesI was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.
The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.
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