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.
Malice; ill will; spite.
Noun
spite and resentment at seeing the success of another (personified as one of the deadly sins)
Noun
a feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something possessed by another
Verb
be envious of; set one''s heart on
Verb
feel envious towards; admire enviously
n.
Malice; ill will; spite.
n.
Chagrin, mortification, discontent, or uneasiness at the
sight of another's excellence or good fortune, accompanied with some
degree of hatred and a desire to possess equal advantages; malicious
grudging; -- usually followed by of; as, they did this in envy of
Caesar.
n.
Emulation; rivalry.
n.
Public odium; ill repute.
n.
An object of envious notice or feeling.
v. t.
To feel envy at or towards; to be envious of; to have a
feeling of uneasiness or mortification in regard to (any one), arising
from the sight of another's excellence or good fortune and a longing to
possess it.
v. t.
To feel envy on account of; to have a feeling of grief or
repining, with a longing to possess (some excellence or good fortune of
another, or an equal good fortune, etc.); to look with grudging upon;
to begrudge.
v. t.
To long after; to desire strongly; to covet.
v. t.
To do harm to; to injure; to disparage.
v. t.
To hate.
v. t.
To emulate.
v. i.
To be filled with envious feelings; to regard anything
with grudging and longing eyes; -- used especially with at.
v. i.
To show malice or ill will; to rail.
Envy
If he evade us there, Enforce him with his envy to the people.2.
Envy is a repining at the prosperity or good of another, or anger and displeasure at any good of another which we want, or any advantage another hath above us.
No bliss Enjoyed by us excites his envy more.
Envy, to which the ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learned or brave.3.
Such as cleanliness and decency Prompt to a virtuous envy.4.
To lay the envy of the war upon Cicero.5.
This constitution in former days used to be the envy of the world.
Envy
A woman does not envy a man for his fighting courage, nor a man a woman for her beauty.
Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.2.
I have seen thee fight, When I have envied thy behavior.
Jeffrey . . . had actually envied his friends their cool mountain breezes.3.
Or climb his knee the envied kiss to share.4.
If I make a lie To gain your love and envy my best mistress, Put me against a wall.5.
Envy
Who would envy at the prosperity of the wicked?2.
Malice; ill will; spite.
To feel envy at or towards; to be envious of; to have a feeling of uneasiness or mortification in regard to (any one), arising from the sight of another's excellence or good fortune and a longing to possess it.
To be filled with envious feelings; to regard anything with grudging and longing eyes; -- used especially with at.
Usage Examples
I envy the sensibility in Europe, appreciating beauty in women as they age. I'm going to go that way. I might dye my gray hair for a bit, but beyond that the buck stops. I'm not having any work done.
Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it's not change, it's partisanship. We don't need partisanship. We don't need demagoguery, we need solutions.
I envy people with dreams and passions, but I don't think that way. I still don't have a 'bliss' to follow. For people like me - I suspect that's most people - holding out for a 'dream' or a 'passion' is paralyzing. I just like having work I enjoy that feels meaningful. That's hard enough... but it's enough.
I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.
A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.
God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.
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Other Usage ExamplesI envy the happiness of others... I envy the sense of belonging... I seem always to be remaking myself.
I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily.
Birds have wings they're free they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
I don't envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.
By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
I don't work a five-day week as a rule, and I've managed to fill that time up. It hasn't been that hard. I volunteer at school. I'm working because I love it. Yet, I don't not envy women who have a stay-at-home job, because you miss stuff.
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