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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

Unknown he liv'd, unenvied, not unblest; Reason his guide, and Happiness his guest.

From Poems by Rogers, Samuel

Happy nation! that could thus be sufficient to itself, which would always be the case, were the luxury and the vanity of other nations to remain unenvied.

From An Account of the Customs and Manners of the Micmakis and Maricheets Savage Nations, Now Dependent on the Government of Cape-Breton by Maillard, Antoine Simon

"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