envying

Speech parts

1. envying - Noun

2. envying - Verb

Meaning

of Envy

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Examples

We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be. Jean Rostand

We are all clever enough at envying a famous man while he is yet alive, and at praising him when he is dead. Mimnermus

There stood Mucius, despising the enemy and despising the fire, and watched his hand as it dripped blood over the fire on his enemy's altar, until Porsenna, envying the fame of the hero whose punishment he was advocating, ordered the fire to be removed against the will of the victim. Seneca

So might we die, not envying them that live; So would we die, not unrevenged all. Torquato Tasso

Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it. André Gide

Neither is envying someone else's upvotes. Source: Internet

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