envious
Example Sentences
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Benjamin Harris has already accomplished enough in his high school track career to make most of his peers envious, but he insists he is far from done.
From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2026
Speaking about Cassie, he said: "She's very addicted to social media and envious of what appears to be the big lives that all of her high school classmates are living at this point in time."
From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026
Mays’ Salieri is at once aghast at such loutish behavior and bitterly envious that Mozart is exceptional enough to get away with it.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026
Liu cast an envious eye toward Trump’s ability to make the world shudder over U.S. tariffs, which he said was the result of dollar-wielding American consumers’ buying power.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 28, 2025
He was genuinely happy for Woody, but he was also deeply envious.
From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore
Vocabulary lists containing envious
"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act II
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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