envy
noun
a feeling of discontent or covetousness with regard to another's advantages, success, possessions, etc.
has envied
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present perfectof envy (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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There is only one rational way ahead: The United States must embrace immigrants if it is to remain the vibrant, wealthy society that the rest of the world has envied for so long.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 16, 2021
He has envied his brother, neglected his mother, and despised his father, a small-town grocer who joshed his customers while he kept his thumb on the scale.
From Time Magazine Archive
Oh, how you have spread yourself and luxuriated in your solitary magnificence, and how every mother's daughter of us has envied you your spacious quarters!
From Katherine's Sheaves by Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
He has envied me the possession of Liesli for a long time, for she is the best cow in the whole neighborhood; and he offered me two hundred francs for her last autumn.
From Harper's Young People, November 4, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly by Various
Man has envied the birds since the world began.
From Up in the Clouds Balloon Voyages by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
