envious
[en-vee-uhs]
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Origin of envious
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Contemporary Examples
As the East Coast digs out from its latest snow dump, Californians can only look on enviously.
Historical Examples
Halbert looked after him, enviously, as he rowed the boat out into the stream.
Brave and BoldHoratio Alger
"You seem to know a lot about him,'" said Lingard, enviously.
The RescueJoseph Conrad
Boys they didn't know, on their way to work, stopped and looked at them enviously.
"I would change places with the Crown Prince," he said enviously.
Long Live the KingMary Roberts Rinehart
"I wish I was in such favour," Mrs. Budlong declared, enviously.
The Dude WranglerCaroline Lockhart
envious
- feeling, showing, or resulting from envy
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Word Origin
C13: from Anglo-Norman, ultimately from Latin invidiōsus full of envy, invidious; see envy
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Word Origin and History for enviously
envious
adj.
c.1300, from Anglo-French envious, Old French envieus (13c.), earlier envidius (12c., Modern French envieux), from Latin invidiosus "full of envy" (source of Spanish envidioso, Italian invidioso, Portuguese invejoso), from invidia (see envy). Related: Enviously; enviousness.
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