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envious in English:

1. envy envy


I envy him.
Upon finding out about the others' success, she turned green with envy.
Is it true that your family will travel in Hokkaido? I envy you.
I envy people who can make friends easily
No love without envy.
Your success excites my envy.
There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.
In later years, I confess that I do not envy the white boy as I once did.
He could only envy the man who would win her.
I envy her ability to talk to people she's never met before.
I gazed with envy at my fellow students who were able to go to Paris for work experience.
Jealousy might motivate, envy only destroys.
He thought with envy about the junior manager on holiday in Thailand.
So the questions go like, are we in the high-growth categories or do we have category envy?

English word "envious"(envy) occurs in sets:

abstract noun

2. jealous jealous


He was sick of being vilified all the time by people who were jealous of his ability.
Some people lie because they don’t want to make their friends jealous.
I'm not jealous.
Chris recognized the boy from his math class and became very jealous.
A jealous person gets a feeling of contentment by behaving like a dog in the manger even with his friends.
John doesn't want to make his friends jealous and he doesn't tell them the truth about this weekend.
Kastur was a confident girl, and Mohandas felt jealous of her because he was still very shy
When I saw him with another girlfriend I felt jealous
Now we are a good team and other teachers praise our class and are jealous of our form master’s success.
He's only talking to her to make you jealous.
Anna says she feels jealous every time another woman looks at her boyfriend.
Brian’s girlfriend likes talking to Fred, and Brian is jealous.
I think you're a little jealous. / Maybe he gave a low mark to a student or possibly it was a jealous lover.
‘My city break was amazing.’ ‘Stop, you’re making me really jealous!’
A jealous person wants what other people have.