She kept her eyes on me, and repeated with a sort of whimsical enviousness:

Mr. Hooker was apparently examining the elegant furniture and luxurious accommodation with his usual resentful enviousness.

To business people, it denotes enviousness and covetousness.

Fenellan's enviousness drove him at the Rev.

It is they who seem to have the enviousness, to be torn with desire to get what isn't theirs.

And it is amusing, though sad, to gee how such folk take for granted in others the same pretty enviousness which they feel in themselves.

"It's nothing but enviousness," he said in a lowered tone, which had a stimulating effect upon my wearied hearing.

"Do not give way to the enviousness of your sister's lot," he admonished her, very grave, in his deep voice.