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However, a unenvied ability to seemingly jump into the wrong car in the wrong team at the wrong time seemed to stunt his ability to show the world his ability to full effect.

From BBC • Dec. 8, 2025

As acting director of WPB's Forest Products Bureau* he is the Government's unenvied Solomon, who has to decide who gets how much paper�and there is not enough paper to go around.

From Time Magazine Archive

These are they Deserve the greatness, and unenvied stand, Since what they act transcends what they command.

From Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham by Denham, John, Sir

"It is the great privilege of poverty" says Dr. Johnson, "to be happy unenvied, to be healthy without physic, and to be secure without guard."

From The Golden Censer The duties of to-day, the hopes of the future by McGovern, John

It was the spirit of the age, and, perhaps, one not to be unenvied.

From A Book of Sibyls Miss Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs Opie, Miss Austen by Ritchie, Anne Thackeray