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enviable

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1. enviable - Adjective

2. enviable - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Fitted to excite envy; capable of awakening an ardent desire to posses or to resemble.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man. George Washington

In the Congress hierarchy, he enjoyed an enviable position being a member of the Congress Working Committee for many years. Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed

A man bringing himself, melody and mathematics into perfect and enviable proportions. / only more so, much more so. Peter Greenaway

They [The Mason family where Hartley stayed 1935 - 1941] maintain an enviable balance between the material & spiritual worlds (so) they symbolize for me the term ideal. Marsden Hartley

While still a young man, John Courteney Boot had, as his publisher proclaimed, "achieved an assured and enviable position in contemporary letters." Evelyn Waugh

Programmers are in the enviable position of not only getting to do what they want to, but because the end result is so important they get paid to do it. There are other professions like that, but not that many. Linus Torvalds

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