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Recent Examples of enviously
But what is a resort collection, or cruise as it’s sometimes called, other than an enviously Instagrammable trip?
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Alexandra Hildreth,
Vogue,
27 Apr. 2026
To put that further into context, Wrexham looked up enviously at all three for a decade from non-League until winning promotion in 2023.
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Richard Sutcliffe,
New York Times,
22 Apr. 2026
While the venue gained significant popularity and an enviously cool reputation, it was also plagued by regulatory troubles in recent years.
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Joseph Wilkinson,
New York Daily News,
4 Aug. 2025
Alexandra Hildreth,
Vogue,
27 Apr. 2026
To put that further into context, Wrexham looked up enviously at all three for a decade from non-League until winning promotion in 2023.
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Richard Sutcliffe,
New York Times,
22 Apr. 2026
While the venue gained significant popularity and an enviously cool reputation, it was also plagued by regulatory troubles in recent years.
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Joseph Wilkinson,
New York Daily News,
4 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for enviously
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His new films taps into the mood in his native Russia in 2022 with a twist-laden tale of privilege, betrayal, jealously, primordial survival instinct and compromise in a Russian provincial city.
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Somewhere, Archie is seething with jealously.
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Pacino had to leap and, eventually, resentfully, stand on a chair to spray-paint over the bank’s cameras.
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In a blowup argument, Ethan resentfully calls James’ privilege a deficiency that prevents him from understanding more difficult lives.
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Customers complained, some bitterly, and AMD heard and granted their demands.
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Those fans erupted when Harry Kane scored on a penalty kick in the 12th minute, and groaned bitterly when Baturina scored the equalizer some 20 minutes later.
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Among the innards and the great slab of white tail fat was the sheep's head, balefully gazing up at me.
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But that caustically independent branding didn't deter Moulton.
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In the 1980s, Letterman caustically rejected the schmoozy style of Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show with his follow-on program, Late Night.
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The camera then switches from the chaos of the puppy, to the kitten—who is sitting in a relaxed position, blinking slowly, and staring almost disdainfully at the wriggling puppy.
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Bella, in her podcast conversation with Trinny Woodall, recalled that once, at a village post office, a shop assistant disdainfully called her a hippie.
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The sponsors are vindictively threatening to punish the people of Colorado for daring to vote and act democratically.
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This is important work, and the information will help political opponents targeted in the future argue that they are being vindictively prosecuted.
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The Season’s characters, entertaining in their obnoxiously wealthy and drama-prone ways but not exactly dimensional, simply aren’t built for close scrutiny.
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Walks obnoxiously continue to be the order of the day.
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“Enviously.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enviously. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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