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Recent Examples of envious Riley, perhaps a bit envious, took notice. Kevin Kurz, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025 Watch Hall recall her experience feeling envious of Liu in the clip above. Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Sep. 2025 Shane was happy for Mulumba, but also envious. John J. Lennon, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2025 Celebrating someone else’s success, while at the same time being incredibly envious of it, is something that everyone can understand in a lot of people’s relationships. Giana Levy, Variety, 20 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for envious
Recent Examples of Synonyms for envious
jealous
Adjective
  • As the guy who took three years to get my f****** solar panels in I’m kind of jealous.
    James Bickerton, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Now, Shepard has been jokingly jealous of Bell's spark with Brody on-screen in Nobody Wants This.
    Jordana Comiter, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025

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“Envious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/envious. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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