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to have a resentful awareness of and desire for (another's possessions or advantages) or to feel resentment toward (someone) over possessions or advantages
her coworkers envied her chummy relationship with the senior vice president they envied him because he didn't have to work for a living
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Recent Examples of envies
The 35-year-old veteran — with two All-Star games, over 2,000 career strikeouts and Cy Young votes to his name — envies a rookie.
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Mitch Bannon,
New York Times,
22 May 2026
While a painter envies the novelist’s ability to inhabit consciousness, or a filmmaker envies the freedom from production costs, artists must be warned that writing carries its own myths and seductive fallacies.
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Literary Hub,
8 Dec. 2025
Mitch Bannon,
New York Times,
22 May 2026
While a painter envies the novelist’s ability to inhabit consciousness, or a filmmaker envies the freedom from production costs, artists must be warned that writing carries its own myths and seductive fallacies.
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Literary Hub,
8 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for envies
resents
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And Freddy, of course, resents the hell out of him.
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The party resents being asked about Biden or Platner, resents that the political press can’t point its cameras somewhere else.
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“Envies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/envies. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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