So I think there's a spirit of enviousness or perhaps competition. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Raymond, Eunice, Wayne, and Charles Russell English, December 8, 1999. Interview K-0280. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
Actually, there is a bit of enviousness, or what we call, I don't know what is the English word for it, but it is like gloating. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 10, 2009] Reference
They tell us, also, that Catulus himself alleged this in vindication of his honor, accusing, in various ways, the enviousness of Marius. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference
But when I think of Gibson and Boyce, I don ` t know them, but I also wonder if they interpreted events very negatively, felt diminished, snubbed, enviousness in fact didn ` t motivate some of this as well. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 1, 2008] Reference
Schalk Burger in South Africa with a degree of enviousness. From Wordnik.com. [Stuff.co.nz - Stuff] Reference
To business people, it denotes enviousness and covetousness. From Wordnik.com. [What's in a Dream: A Scientific and Practical Interpretation of Dreams] Reference
I fancy a great deal of nonsense is talked about the world's enviousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Odd Women] Reference
And was it not something like enviousness which gripped his heart, as if of. From Wordnik.com. [Under Western Eyes] Reference
She kept her eyes on me, and repeated with a sort of whimsical enviousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Arrow of Gold] Reference
"Do not give way to the enviousness of your sister's lot," he admonished her, very grave, in his deep voice. From Wordnik.com. [Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard] Reference
"It's nothing but enviousness," he said in a lowered tone, which had a stimulating effect upon my wearied hearing. From Wordnik.com. [Falk] Reference
Fenellan's enviousness drove him at the Rev.Mr. Barmby until the latter jumped to the seat beside Nesta in her carriage, Mademoiselle de Seilles and Mr. Sowerby facing them. From Wordnik.com. [One of Our Conquerors — Complete] Reference
The cottager whose pearl Colin had come down to inspect, slapped the farmer on the back, and without a trace of enviousness -- for he himself had been lucky -- joined in his delight. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries] Reference
And yet they were not unkindly people; ready to do a kindness if it did not take away from them any of the luxuries, pleasures, delightful enviousness in others less successful, which gradually would give them atrophy of the soul. From Wordnik.com. [The Privet Hedge] Reference
I think of the dear people whose living was confident and glad because of their faith in You: I think of them, and in my heart contends a blind contrition, and a yearning, and an enviousness, and yet a tender sort of amusement colors all. From Wordnik.com. [Jurgen A Comedy of Justice] Reference
If we lay store by satisfactions which imply the envy and humiliation of other folk, why then we set about such work as humiliates our neighbours or fills them with enviousness, saving the case where others, sharing our tastes, do alike by us. From Wordnik.com. [Hortus Vitae Essays on the Gardening of Life] Reference
The pure trance of work, the different reservoirs of power opening so softly; the instrument in pure listening -- long forenoons passing, without a single instant of self-consciousness, desire, enviousness, without even awareness of the body. From Wordnik.com. [Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation] Reference
“It’s nothing but enviousness,” he said in a lowered tone, which had a stimulating effect upon my wearied hearing. From Wordnik.com. [Falk, by Joseph Conrad] Reference
Norfolke, where my Lord is laying out a great deal of money; and that he, Mr. Povy, considering the unsafeness of laying out money at such a time as this, and, besides, the enviousness of the particular county, as well as all the kingdom, to find him building and employing workmen, while all the ordinary people of the country are carried down to the seasides for securing the land, he thought it becoming him to go to my. From Wordnik.com. [Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete] Reference
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