envious
adjective
full of, feeling, or expressing envy.
unenvious
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a word derived from
envious.
Example Sentences
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“You’re really looking at rebuilding from scratch,” he said, “which is an unenvious place to be for sure.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 20, 2019
Those who glanced on my book while I was reading always smiled—a significant sympathising smile, very expressive of that unenvious, affectionate homage and admiration which this genuine American writer inspires among her countrymen.
From Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson
Helen sat in her quiet corner, at her work, sometimes listening with mournful, though certainly unenvious, admiration at Violante's vivid, yet ever unconscious, eloquence of word and thought—sometimes plunged deep into her own secret meditations.
From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 by Various
Such, too, was Nesbitt; the older members of the profession loved him, and those of his own age were unenvious and esteemed him.
From The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest by William Henry Sparks
"There's something so stylish about you, Anne," said Diana, with unenvious admiration.
From Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
