A feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something that is possessed by another.
1 She kept her eyes on me, and repeated with a sort of whimsical enviousness :
2 Mr. Hooker was apparently examining the elegant furniture and luxurious accommodation with his usual resentful enviousness .
3 To business people, it denotes enviousness and covetousness.
4 Fenellan's enviousness drove him at the Rev.
5 It is they who seem to have the enviousness , to be torn with desire to get what isn't theirs.
6 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.
7 "It's nothing but enviousness , " he said in a lowered tone, which had a stimulating effect upon my wearied hearing.
8 "Do not give way to the enviousness of your sister's lot," he admonished her, very grave, in his deep voice.
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