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• Many of those that envy celebrities aspire to celebrity themselves.From the entry celebrity
• A class with feature envy of another class means it is highly coupled to that class.2010, Peter Ritchie, Refactoring with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN. From the entry feature envy
• Any change to the class being envied means it affects the class with the envy.2010, Peter Ritchie, Refactoring with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN. From the entry feature envy
• Few male fans were on hand Tuesday night, which according to Bieberites is purely due to envy.2010 September 15, Jen Skerritt, “OMG!”, in Winnipeg Free Press. From the entry bieberite
• Indeed, her Hills hoist may have made her backyard the object of envy for others.2008, Katie Holmes, Sue Martin, Susan K. Martin, Kylie Mirmohamadi, Reading the Garden: The Settlement of Australia, page 177. From the entry Hills Hoist
• And what the spirit of uncomradeliness begins, finally ends with the jealousy, envy, and rivalry of lovers.1999, Hubert Kennedy, chapter 8, in The Ideal Gay Man: The Story of Der Kreis, The Haworth Press, Inc., page 168. From the entry uncomradeliness
• Chess, it seems, is even more bicoastal than the usual occasions of midwestern envy.1988 April 1, Harold Henderson, “Addicted to Chess”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry bicoastal
• Sure, there wasn't a shortage of Spaceforce personnel who didn't envy him.1981, James R. Berry, Quas Starbrite, →ISBN. From the entry spaceforce
• Having fought many fires in the States, I sure didn't envy future Smokey Bears in that terrain.1976, Gary M. Smith, Windsinger, →ISBN, page 100. From the entry smokey bear
• How he envied the Merkin people who could live in such bungalows!1960, Shirley L[ease] Arora, What Then, Raman?, Chicago, I.L.: Follett Publishing Company, page 16. From the entry merkin
• Come to think of it, I certainly don't envy you all the work involved.1955 January, Art Rapp, “Through Rain”, in Abstract, number 9. From the entry crifanac
• I envy those chroniclers who assert with reckless but sincere abandon: 'I was there.1954, Gore Vidal, Messiah. From the entry abandon
• You envy those in equivalent positions at Mount Holyoke and Harvard.1935 January 12, Robert Frost, “[To George F[risbie] Whicher. ALS. ACL.]”, in Mark Richardson, Donald Sheehy, Robert Bernard Hass, Henry…. From the entry tua culpa
• When I saw her spidership my war-cry would have turned a Filipino bolo-man green with envy.1916, Caroline Saxe Shunk, An Army Woman in the Philippines: Extracts from Letters of an Army Officer's Wife, page 86. From the entry spidership
• I almost envy those stay-at-homes for whom Europe and the world is quite unproved.1911 August 20, Stephen Graham, “The White Night. Impressions of the Far North in Russia. From St. James’s Gazette.”, in The Los Angeles…. From the entry stay-at-home
• I think if Superman ever ended up in the Boysverse, Homelander would be driven even madder from envy.2019 October 8, @DanRemnant, Twitter (post), archived from the original on 02 May 2026. From the entry Boysverse
• The Yummies were the women who, next to the Starlets and Professional Have-It-Alls, Meredith envied most, and therefore half-despised.2009, Leah McLaren, The Continuity Girl. From the entry yummy
• It's impossible to floss wealth without attracting envy.2007, Azie Faison, Agyei Tyehimba, Game Over: The Rise and Transformation of a Harlem Hustler, Simon and Schuster, page 69. From the entry floss
• The eight desirable qualities are kindness, tolerance, forbearance, absence of envy, cleanliness, freedom from stress, welfare, unmiserliness and lack of desire.2005, Swāmī Hariharānanda Āraṇya, “A Comprehensive Interpretation of Sāṁkhya-kārikās”, in Sāṁkhya Across The Millenniums, Madhupur: Kāpil…. From the entry unmiserliness
• I certainly didn't suffer from Confederate-uniform envy.2004, Mark Singer, Somewhere in America, Houghton Mifflin, page 70. From the entry period
• I had become one of the people I envied, and I now envied a higher level of sharpers and highbinders.2003, Jim Morris, Fighting Men, page 189. From the entry highbinder
• I want to tell them that I envy their upbringings that were so clean, so free of futurelessness.1991, Douglas Coupland, “Eat Your Parents”, in Generation X, New York: St. Martin's Press, →OCLC, page 86. From the entry futurelessness
• His secretary jumps when he rings; his brisky independent way with important customers is the envy of his sales staff.1960 October 21, Muriel Lawrence, “Irritation Result of Weakness”, in Victoria Advocate, USA, retrieved 25 Oct 2011, page 3. From the entry brisky
• If it would have called forth any specific reactions in Southeast Asia, the obvious ones would have been envy and dissatisfaction.1959, John Kerry King, Southeast Asia in Perspective, The MacMillan Company, page 269. From the entry superunbelievable
• How I envied Peter his easy, insouciant manner!1913 August, L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, “The Christmas Harp”, in The Golden Road, Boston, Mass.: The Page Company, published April 1926…. From the entry insouciant
• If you had seen that notable body of representatives, envy and pride would both have held sway in your heart.1905, The Railway Clerk, volumes 4–5, Order of Railway Clerks of America, page 220, column 1. From the entry elegantness
• They are the envy of every other Irish League club by forcing their way in with the big boys in the UEFA Conference League.2024 August 29, Alex Mills, “Larne headed for Conference League group stages as Andy Ryan hat-trick secures historic Play-Off joy”, in…. From the entry big boy
• Brianna curbed her pang of envy as she forked her plain, low-fat, crouton-free salad niçoise into her mouth and shook her head.2018, Maya Blake, chapter 2, in What the Greek's Money Can't Buy (Greek Bachelors), HarperCollins UK, →ISBN. From the entry fork
• I know because I worked with the Home Office and the service for many years to accomplish what became the envy of the world.2013 January 31, Saville Kushner, “Letters: The high price society and officers are paying for policing cuts”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor…. From the entry kibosh
• His plight reveals a truth that's often obscured by the envy of newspaper readers; that it's not all beer and skittles in restaurant-critic land.2012 March 24, John Walsh, “The perils of reviewing restaurants”, in The Independent. From the entry beer and skittles
• The case of envy just described is one in which we feel joy or sadness at the sadness or joy of one we antecedently hate.2008, Michael Della Rocca, chapter 4, in Spinoza, London: Routledge, page 161. From the entry antecedently
• By envying Sue, as the man he cannot become, he projects his self-loathing onto her, trying to diminish what he actually admires.2005, Jeff Johnson, William Inge And The Subversion Of Gender, →ISBN, page 122. From the entry misogyny
• She made it her business to look cute every day so she'd be noticed by the boys and envied by the girls.1997, Virginia DeBerry, Donna Grant, Tryin' to Sleep in the Bed You Made. From the entry make it one's business
• The working convict is a rare exception, sometimes envied because his time is occupied, sometimes derided for his deviance from the yardbird norm.1985, John P. Conrad, “Charting a Course for Imprisonment Policy,”, in Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science…. From the entry yardbird
• He had a Hobbist vision of ‘the whole world consuming in the fire of envy one against another’, from which quietism was the only escape.1972, Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down, Folio Society, published 2016, page 177. From the entry Hobbist
• Renounce slander and envy of others.1963, M. Arthur Macauliffe, The Sikh Religion: its Gurus, Sacred Writings and Authors, page 7. From the entry falsehood
• It was established that the chimps' high living standard had been watched and envied by the hoomans for some length of time.1961, The Bedding Manufacturer. From the entry hooman
• How often do we envy the ophthalmologist for his ability to use mydriatrics and thus widen the pupil for easy exploration of the eye(-)ground!1959, Optometric World, volume 47, page 30. From the entry mydriatric

Meaning of envy

1. noun Resentful desire of something possessed by another or others (but not limited to material possessions).
2. noun An object of envious notice or feeling.
3. noun Hatred, enmity, ill-feeling.

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Questions about envy in a sentence

How do you use envy in a sentence?

Envy is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Many of those that envy celebrities aspire to celebrity themselves.”

What is a short sentence with envy?

“Renounce slander and envy of others.”

What does envy mean?

Envy means resentful desire of something possessed by another or others (but not limited to material possessions).